What do you mean putting up with it? The best mod to do to it is to take out the glow plug wires, and use a handheld ignitor, and just use the ez start to turn it over. Works a lot better and catches on easier than with the full blown ez start.

When my fingers are frozen, I'd much rather pull a rip cord than press a button, but sometimes I get lazy.

I guess it's whatever you want.