27/09, having looked at it at Booker, I agree with your details, but not necessarily your conclusions.
It's a training aeroplane - designed to giving cost effective multi-engine training in a modern flying machine. That it would appear to do very well.
Frankly, if you want a practical medium-speed 4-person tourer, buy a PA32, C182 or a PA28R and don't go faffing around with multi-engine!
G