That's totally not what either Ghostcrawler or I'm talking about. By "easier to get into" I mean doing well enough to to fulfill my role in the level of content I'm doing (like not getting killed in 3 seconds in PVP), not gaming the LFG system to have others carry me through content.
I think ghostcrawler didn't explain it enough. By "easier to get into" he means - easier to swap from one to the other for people who focus mostly on one aspect of the game. Since PvP gear is essentially the same as PvE gear at that ilvl, you don't have to grind the prerequisite PvE gear. Say you only did PvP and had 397 ilvl PvP gear, that's the same as 397 PvE gear and you can jump right in rather than having to grind up PvE gear up to that level.
Then with the Power/Defence gap - it depends how much they give you. Everybody's base is 30% and if PvP gear gives 10%, PvE'rs aren't at a massive disadvantage.