No Mart, the beans refer especially to all time-limited components.
Regarding the cost, I would bet dollars to donuts that the electronics and computation in the cell phone that all ppruners carry are more complex and expensive than those needed to count beans. The difference is tyhe number of units sold to cover the development. I do promise you that the list of R22 costs for components would demonstrate to normal people how economically imperitive it is (let alone safety concerns) that we move toward accounting directly the remaining life.
Gomer Pylot, your wish to have simple red lines is like my wish as a boy to have all the cream chees and jelly sandwiches in the world available, it is a dream. Do yoy actually think we put the lines where things break? Do you actually think there is such a relationship, where a red line marks the danger point, and all things less are wonderful, and .001% beyond that red line is death and destruction?
I give a class on where the red lines come from (having painted more than my fair share of them on gages) and I can assure you, almost none of the red lines you see are due to an actual "it will break right now if you exceed this" limit. Alomost all red lines carry with them an assumed life, an assumed operating philosophy, and an assumed degree of inspection.
The science of determining safe limits and life is the essence of engineering, and is fraught with ethical decisions like "safer" and "enough" and "practical".
Let me ask you, in driving your family, does a traffic light signal safety? If you travel the speed limit, are you truly assured that nothing unsafe can happen to you? If you inflate your tires to 33 psi, will they never blow out?
Gomer Pylot, wish for Mother Helicopter God to paint lines in places so you are always covered, but if we painted them to assure you Nothing Ever would Happen, your payload would be 10% of what it is now, your cost to operate 10 times higher, and your actual safety would be hardly different, since odds are you would take that assuredly safe machine, and CFIT yourself with it just as easily, or misjudge that distance, or overload it unintentionally. When we fix the real cause of helicopter accidents, we can spread our knowledge to the rest of human endevors. The enemy is usually us, not our machines.