All of the wealthy pilot-owner types around my neck of the woods are flying R44s or R66s. They see the value of the design. None of them predate SFAR 73 and they don't live in a country that crashes then at high rate. Thus they don't have that crusty attitude towards them that you get here.
The real question remains: will the value of the design outweigh the 40 hour fly-off requirement? Thinking about it some more, I think it will. These guys will hire some local starving pilots to fly it off for them. Sure, they'll fly some of it. But for most of them 40 hours is an entire year's worth of hours. They just don't have the time. And I think they'll see the 2 week build trip as an adventure vacation they can dine off of at cocktail parties and whenever they've got new folks in the helicopter. "Built it myself, I did!" Which is bull****. Hill says the plan meets the letter and the spirit of the law. No way is it going to meet the spirit.