My taildragger experience is admittedly even more limited than my general flying experience, although I found it instructive and quite joyful and would like a trial flight in an old open-cockpit taildragger, too (already for remotely emulating the experience of flying WWI airplanes like in Rise of Flight
).
However, I wholeheartedly reject the notion that the difference between flying/training in an (old) taildragger and flying/training in a (modern) trike amounts to the difference between good and crap flying/training, or that one
has to fly taildraggers/do aeros/like stalls and spins to be(come) a good pilot.
And on a more general and personal note, while I admire great stick & rudder skills and aspire to develop decent ones myself, I find this (implied) "us real pilots vs. them pathetic aircraft operators" undertone which so often seems to go with the subject of airplane handling quite tedious
(but that may be just me as a newbie and explicit non-skygod).