The staggering thing is that there are several people on here who seem to be maintenance people yet they cannot agree on the basics.
Welcome to my world.........
It seems rare that we agree these days IO but you are bang on.
I talked to a number of maintenance companies who all told my their interpretation of the rules. It was also frightening the figures being quoted for the paperwork exercise which was being seriously overstated by some companies. I had one company tell me that before they could do any work on the aircraft they would need to do 25 hours of paperwork at £42 per hour. Then the annual was on top. I also found that some trying to apply generic Cessna lifes to items rather than looking at my actual aircraft. As it turns out according to the actual service manual for my aircraft half of the stuff that I was told had to be replaced was not required.
The prop overhauls still peeve me but the other stuff is now not as bad as the first impression.
I don't really blame the maintenance companies, I think that some have been a little over zealous but the CAA have done such a crap job of implementing this that it was inevitable it would go wrong.