From what I've read, the felt recoil of the inertia driven is quite a bit more than the gas-op. While it isn't quite a pump gun or break action (with no recoil absorption at all), it is going to hit the shooter harder. Inertia is also going to cycle a bit more quickly, and yes, there's no gas system to clean.
Still, I think the cleanliness aspect is not that big a deal- I can't imagine a situation where you'd be putting hundreds upon hundreds of rounds through a shotgun without being able to strip it down and wipe the worst of the crud out of the gas system.
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