The problem is Ryanair are NOT getting in enough trouble, and the poor sods that are living every day waiting for the knock on the door ARE.
Even for those who are trying to be "compliant" it is a minefield, as the OP has explained.
Sad, that so many myopically rushed to accept this "Contractor" cr@p all those years ago, with no thought to the future prognosis.
The old saying "if it seems too good to be true, it probably is" applies.
The original contractors earned a nice stash from it, but the current crop are certainly paying for their predecessors lack of farsightedness.