Go for it. As the others have said, there is nothing special about a Cirrus except it doesn't like fast landings.
As for "learning the basic skills" and all that, I'd take the potentially radical view that glass cockpits, GPS nav and the magenta line ARE the new basic skills. NDBs, VORs and tons of dials aren't basic, they are just outdated - if you make the choice of flying modern, contemporary aircraft instead of the usual (and much cheaper) avionics museums. That's not to say you shouldn't be able to interpret and fly that half mil (isn't that what the Brits call it?) displayed on your iPad. But you learned that getting the license, I'm pretty sure.
So let the fight begin
