I think that you can forget any variation of the Puma; i.e. the 225. It's a 1966 concept with its fuselage designed to go into the back of a Transall or on a SNCF truck which is why it is so low and narrow.
Soldiers are now taller as anybody knows when you compare the height of sixth formers now to the sixties and they cannot run around a Puma sized cabin in the crouch position. By definition the cabin has to be taller and that will be the end of the Puma line.
The replacement will have a taller wider cabin, a much wider undercarriage preferably nosewheel so as to minimise the landing foorprint and a onboard situation update program that can be actioned during a sortie.
Fifteen hours/month flying plus thirty in the simulator seems about right. After a full career one might have enough hours to get a job.