They're not hard to step into, just sort of annoying/they take a bit longer to line up your heel. Also, if you try to step on the heelpiece to get out of them, they will usually just pop back up so using your pole is necessary. Also, they are ultra sensitive to ice on the bottom of your boot, more so than say a salomon sth. They perform amazingly but are jut a little too finicky for my tastes. I've got tyrolia peak 18s on my park skis and will be rocking salomon 916 steels on my pow skis, which I prefer a bit over the fks platform. Also, if you break a brake on an fks, you have to completely unmount and disassemble the heel to replace it. My last qualm with the fks is that rossignol thought it would be a genius idea to create debatably the most burly binding on the market, but make the baseplate a fragile plastic piece of shit. There's also no adjustability in the heel if you're still growing. All in all, they are a fantastic binding with amazing elasticity, they just have too many little quirks for my tastes.