I think it is unfortunate that we are seeing the creeping "airlinerization" of flight training, that is flight training that thinks you should fly the light SEP the same way you would a jet airliner. The lightest tricycle geared airplane I have ever flown is a C 150 with a MGTOW 1500 lbs, the heaviest an airliner with a MGTOW of 116,000 lbs. To think I should fly the takeoff the same way in both airplanes is to me totally ludicrous. The sad part to me is that an essential part of ab initio learning should be developing a feel for lift. That is being able to feel how much or how little the wing is lifting yet the current paint by numbers approach to flying training actively discourages this vital skill
Ironically while flying the big iron is very much a matter of precision in setting and maintaining pitch attitudes and speeds, my observation is those pilots who had the "feel" in little airplanes were always superior big airplane pilots.....