This little piggy did all Ab Initio in Citabrias, and some of the PPL navs too.
All things being equal learning from the outset in tailwheelers should make one a better pilot. Not having done so doesn't make anyone less capable - good instruction (which should be everyone's right) will teach all the good habits anyway.
I suppose the things that everyone should do, one HAS to do in a tailwheeler, even the docile ones like Cubs and Citabrias.
I wouldn't do it any other way ..... summer evenings, wheeler landings on 10 at Camden ..... aaahhhgg sigh.