I agree. But how difficult is it to tell a new brewer that you need 200B cells (according to mrmalty) to make a 1.060 brew? Wyeast says you only need one packet for that same batch... A lot of kits give you even less, not to mention that the 200B rate assumes young, healthy, viable yeast in the best of circumstances. The whole thing is confusing when starting out. I made ok beer, but it took 6 or 7 batches to realize I was way underpitching by following what I thought was sound advice. Why the big discrepancy? Starters are easy to do, or at the very least, buying an extra packet of yeast and letting a new brewer make BETTER beer if not great beer from the start would keep many more coming back. And I have seen a BIG difference after those first batches by changing nothing more than the pitch rate.