It's an interesting argument - I can understand Mickey's frustration at his school as an RF not meeting the requirements to do the work. However I guess we live in an ever increasingly litigious world where procedures in all respects have to be documented for repeatability and provability. The staffing requirements for such procedures at a RF against an FTO prevent a lot pursuing it through a simple commercial equation. The cost involved in making the step to a FTO as against an RF is not justified for the extra work and income that would come through the door in the short term.
In my opinion its an expensive and difficult step to justify at a small RF, natural evolution of an RF will often see it grow into a FTO, however commercial decisions have to be made.