I don't have any experience with the newer flybarless heli's with a 3 or 6-axis gyro. But I find the traditional flybar heli's to be pretty stable and fun to fly. A helicopter is still a helicopter and the typical quadrotor pilot with no heli experience will crash one within 5 seconds of takeoff with lots of wild manuveurs - unless it's one of the newer flybarless designs with a gyro or controller. But you don't really learn how to fly a helcopter with those. A computer flies it and the pilot only makes requests to the computer. If you really want to learn how to fly a heli, the best is to pick up a used flybar machine, and go get some instruction from an experienced pilot. You will find the experience much more rewarding with fewer crashes and broken parts.
The other thing with heli's is that the focus these days is on sport aerobatics and 3D. Forget all that. It actually takes a LOT more practice to become an accomplished scale pilot than it does full-stick 3D flying. I've seen lots of 3D pilots that, when taking off and landing, simply slam in full collective and launch like an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, fly like they're drunk for 5 minutes, then simply plop it back on the ground. They never learned how to fly a helicopter and 99% are flying heli's with 3 or 6-axis gyro's/stabilizers.
Here is a YouTube example of an exceptional scale pilot flying a turbine Trex with just a flybar and no gyro's doing any "hand holding". It takes a lot, and I mean a LOT, of practice to get this good. But when you get there, the rewards are huge because you know you're good, it took a lot of practice and time to get there, and that makes it all worthwhile. IMO if you just go buy an electronic stabilized helicopter, or don't get any flight instruction, you're not going to get the same experience and satisfaction with it. Even myself, as a fairly experienced heli pilot, when I bought my used Trex 500 I had questions on how to set it up. I'd never flown anything that small, and never flown an electric before. I didn't get any satisfaction asking on forums, so I went and sought out the advice of an experienced pilot in the RC club who had flown that model, knows what it's capable of, and how to set it up. That "hands on" makes all the difference.
https://youtu.be/0JPtB7n-S_8