You are lucky. My R44 rating which had expired by only about 5 weeks is completely missing from my new EASA licence.
Having said that, I think my LAPL was the first (H) one they had ever issued so nobody at the time actually knew what they were doing.
But there are no type ratings on an LAPL so 'they' were quite right and it is you who doesn't know what they were doing. It really isn't unreasonable to expect the holder of a pilot licence to understand the privileges and responsibilities that come with it. All of the regulations are freely available on the web and it is hardly the CAA's fault if you can't be arsed to read them.