Step, of course! Chippys are oily (so you have wear a flying suit or old jeans and jersey), noisy, short range, slow, they vibrate, they have no stowage space, they lose height during aeros due the fixed pitch prop and 145 bhp engine, and they are expensive to maintain.
I more than forgive it all that fro the pure joy its delightful handling brings - you strap it on rather than climb into it - you are a bird! It also looks pretty good (unless you stick a horrid flat engine in it!). Not for nothing is it known as 'The Poor Man's Spitfire'.
So yes, I happily exchange a lot of practicality for purity of flight. But then I'm a private fly-for-fun pilot; I'm not in the air transport game, not even the personal air transport game. I suspect many UK PPLs also fly for pure pleasure rather than more practical reasons.