I reckon it is just you !
In the real world there are clearly some helicopter companies which do not have the resources to employ as many full time pilots as they would like (you obviously have never come across such a company and I envy you for that) It seems to me that using airline pilots with a rotary licence is as good an alternative as any, indeed in my last company we employed a couple of airline pilots who contributed greatly at times of stretch, we also used a freelance pilot who is a farmer. They all added greatly to the operation not only in the way they approached the job but also by providing a variation on the theme. If you feel that there is nothing which you could learn from other pilots with a different background then you must be one hell of a guy, but then if I was your employer I would probably be happier with a humbler and cheaper EU national who is equally entitled to work in the UK.
So give freelance pilots from the airlines a break, they do a job for the helicopter operators on the cheap for sure but in many cases it would be prohibitive to employ a full time pilot to do them. (unless he was Portugese,Pole etc, in which case he could have your job too!)
Percy