Assuming that Moochie Moo is an American contributor his negativity towards HOMP is, perhaps, not surprising. In the UK and also other parts of Europe, the fixed wing version of HOMP has been delivering real safety benefits in the real world for 40+ years while the US has been dragging its heels. However the benefits have been recognised by ICAO and it becomes a standard practice (i.e. mandatory) for a/c above 27T from Jan 2005.
HOMP simply applies the same process to helicopters and if MM took the trouble to read the reports he would see the significant benefits that were immediately obvious in the trials. Suffice it to say that all North Sea operators (UK and Norway) have either implemented or are implementing HOMP completely voluntarily.
Finally, the turbulence algorithms are only an add-on to HOMP, not the raison d'etre for HOMP as implied by MM. In any case, if turbulence is not a real issue then somebody needs to tell all the North Sea pilots - turbulence was ranked by them as being the most significant safety hazard in a well supported (74% response rate) questionnaire-based survey. CAA paper 97009 refers, but that's probably another report that MM hasn't read.