"LASORS is 660 pages of tedious bureaucratic gobbledygook."
No it isn't, it is a very useful document available free of charge as a .pdf - and produced after a lot of hard work and effort by the CAA.
Recency rules and maintenance of your licence and rating were all part of your Air Law & Op Procedures exam. If you had studied the syllabus and made relevant notes, you would know the recency and validity requirements! Regrettably, many pilots haven't a clue about the difference between rating validity, recency and licence re-issue, for example; for that they have no-one to blame but themselves.