Since the PA46 was designed for the American "a 20,000m hard runway in every town"
market, I don't suppose Piper thought the liability was significant. Another 10 seconds with 350-500HP and you
will be airborne.
The USA gets significantly more utility out of a plane which cannot do more than a few hundred nm with 4 people, than Europe with its relative scarcity of runways.
Anyway, this is one of many good things about the TB20. In 6 years, I have had to watch W&B only once, which was quite a long trip with 4 adults (me and three real fatties) when I had to depart with just 4hrs' fuel for a 2hr trip. I was not happy because the destination was likely to be fogged in (widespread) and in the end I cancelled and the subsequent mayhem (not everybody cancelled) borne out my decision. 1 W&B issue and zero crosswind-limit issues in 6 years is not bad going!!