May I beg to differ.
I flew the Vampire for some 120 hours at Valley during my RAF advanced pilot training. OK, they were getting very long in the tooth even in 1962, but there was a 500rpm band around 5300-odd rpm which had to be avoided because of resonance.
They could only be spun dual, because they had very small fins and rudders and quite frequently (in each aircraft's case terminally) they wouldn't come out and had to be abandoned. Behaviour in the spin was unpredictable, with pitch oscillations coinciding with increases and decreases in the rate of rotation as the radius of gyration altered.
A trick which we learnt early on was to open the throttle a little too quickly when going round again. The subsequent overfuelling produced a satisfyingly long trail of flame, visible in the rear view mirror. Most of the fleet had singed tails.
The brakes were pneumatic, making a sound like a tube train when released.
It was a great aircraft to learn on, having a compact cockpit with a fighter-style control column, complete with non-functioning firing buttons. The flap and undercarriage selection levers were close together, and many a pilot realised they'd raised the flaps on the wrong lever as they settled gracefully onto the taxiway.
We were the last Vampire course before introduction of the Gnat and I can't say that I was reluctant to move on.