Well CL, the King Air boss tends to want the cabin. Never worked for that type, but I get it.
A mil for a 500 or 3.5 for a 350. It's a no brainer if you know how to keep costs down, but some peeps are Beech buyers to the end. Some outfits just hate jets, maybe the image.. and they sometimes migrate to the most expensive Tprop they can find, to the annoyance, or not of the pilot that has to spend his whole career banging through the weather in the 20s.