NSF:
Your defensive posts are getting longer and longer. The phrase "he doth protest too much" springs to mind.
The fact is that you are coming over as a bit of a pompous chappy.
I usually enjoy and agree with most of your posts but I think you have upset quite a few people with your fixed ideas (no doubt all based on your own experience).
I came to jets from 16 years of turboprops (10 years of Argosy and 6 years of Belfast). I was in the right seat of the DC-10 for just one year when I got my command and went on to cruise around the globe in one without an ounce of trouble for six years including a couple of years of line training on it.
I found it a very easy transition.
Perhaps my perspective on the problem is a little bit different from yours since flying round the world (literally) with turboprops is a little bit different to Channex doing early morning papers to Jersey and Guernsey and then fetching flowers back to Bournemouth?
(That is assuming that the aircraft wasn't broken in the process).