Yes the PW's are easy to start.....as are the PT 6's. Not harder....Different.
Trained monkeys! well put, I couldnt agree more. To suggest in any way that managing a turbine engine is harder than a piston is rediculous.
Perhaps every instructor should remove the word 'hard' from their vocabulary and replace it with 'different'. God forbid the rest of the world finds out its not hard to fly an aircraft......