SASless,
it all boils down to the old adage; you can't have your cake and eat it.
You want fast? Have fast but expect penalties at low speed. You want slow? Have slow but don't expect to get a very high Vne. You want good economy? have it but don't expect good OEI performance. You want good OEI performance? Have it but don't expect good fuel economy, and so it goes on.
I loved flying the 212 but I wouldn't swap the 155 now. Granted, it's not perfect, but no helicopter is.
If you read a bit more into what is and is not allowable, you will find water rejects are perfectly legal when operating to PC2 standards. In reality it was always going to be a likely outcome with the 212, too. You and I may not desire it; we'd all like to step out of our a/c on a tarmac strip rather than clamber out into a dinghy, but it IS legal.
PS I don't like Gulder and I don't have a hairy chest!