I am curious about the CFI recommendations.

I understand the kind of skills that being a CFI will build, and how they can be applied to the 121 world. Here's my question: After a certain amount of time being a CFI (say passing a few people through checkrides), wouldn't it be better to move to something else and try to build time in a more challenging aircraft?

The way I am seeing it put out here is that a lot of you are suggesting building all your time before jets as a CFI. The way I see it, CFI will only get you so far, and definitely will not give you very much experience flying a complex high performance aircraft.

There has to be a point where building experience in a twin is going to trump building experience CFIing in a 172. I understand about MEI and CFII being good experience along those lines, but I still see those as being limiting. They leave out a middle step on the way to flying a jet (at least that's the picture that I am getting).