I've flown one and it is a very impressive aircraft - a fully aerobatic (including inverted) cross country IFR capable aircraft. My aerobatics instructor owns one and uses it as his personal plane - he says that when eventually he retires and sells the school, it is the one aircraft he'll keep.
I'm happy to put you in touch with him if you want.
As for using loads of runway - like the Cirrus it is a 61 knot (maximum) stall speed aircraft, so Vref is in the high 70s. Plus apparently it has really unpleasant stall characteristics when close to the ground and you really don't want to go there. So you probably need 2500 feet to operate with confidence. But not 8000.
(Of course it stalls exactly the same at 200 feet as it does at 10000. But you need a bit of space to recover since it tends to drop a wing hard).