FR is an astute man. That is true. There's a marketting ploy here - can you see it?
Yeh the R22 a great helicopter but if I tell you that the R44 is really a much better machine, better payload, and now that it has hydraulics it's really nice to fly. As a trainer it will be a better trainer than the R22 for sure.
Is it the end of the line for the R22? Well I would suggest that it is, and now more financially sensible for FR to sell R44's than R22's. More dosh in his back pocket.
Come on you guys surely you can see that there's more to be made out of the sale of a R44 than a R22.