I have said before that I think the changes were to standardise the correct perception of the services. Old FIS was never supposed to be a FRIS but was percieved as such by some who got it as a courtesy and came to expect it as a right.
And in the frozen norf Scottish info still do the best, I have heard them reporting me to other traffic as "last reported at XX" I will then "G-XX overhead YY at XXX on Portree XXX" Just to keep them up dated.
Personally I think crawling around under CAS & not talking is bloody stupid, just as stupid as crawling over the mountains well outside CAS & not talking.