Get it up well above where you can at least get the machine cleaned up and comfortable before twiddling BARO settings...
Absolutely. Some of those SID's in the UK have you take off on the local altimeter setting, start turning to several waypoints whilst [sic
] hitting altitude constraints like 4000 feet. You can't start cleaning up the aircraft other than raising the gear until 3000 feet AGL and just as you are retracting the flaps, leveling at 4000 and accelerating you get a frequency change and a climb unrestricted to a flight level above the transition altitude at, say, 5000 feet. We are professionals, it builds character, 'I used to fly that departure with NDB's on one receiver with raw data' etc., etc., etc...
But, does it really need to be that hard? At least raising the transition altitude would take one possible trap out of the initially busy departure procedure.