The main difference is the engine(s) response time to throttle(s) advancement.
While in a jet airplane it takes more than 10 seconds to increase from idle to full T.O. thrust, in prop/engine it's almost immediate.
I remember that during my familiarization flights to the Vickers Viscount (almost 35 years ago) we had to perform a manouver from the syllabus:
"the steep approach":
Thrust levers=Idle
Gear=down
Flaps=landing config.
Speed=Threshold speed
Vertical speed=almost 2000-2500 ft/min to the flare.
It was permitted because due to the fast engines response it was possible to go around till the very last moment.
With the advent of the jet engines (La Caravelle in my case) that manoeuver became 'dangerous' if not 'deadly'