After I have now been given the oportunity to see it live and crawl around inside it for a while, I must say that looks are no longer a problem. It certainly looks much better in real life than in pictures. Spoke to a friend who has flown it a fair bit lately and the performance is very good and it meets the bush/utility demand of full fuel & full cabin without any performance issues.
I saw someone mention that the startup is easy but it would have been even better if you could leave the generator on the whole time. Apparently Bell themselves has changed their internal ops manuals to leave generator and lights on all the time as there are no issues in doing so (could be gossip but still...). Might be an official change in startup procedures shortly.