Quoted from PDXGeek:That shot isn't as bad as you think. Once you figure out you can hit that shot by bouncing the TRON targets with the right flipper, its easy. Ok, not easy, but a lot easier and more controlled. Practice that shot.
I had the LE when I had one, I thought EOL multiball was really well done in fact all the multiballs are really well programmed (not played new code which I believe makes disc even better) I'm not a bad player and was really frustrated by the Gem shot, I practised the Gem shot with the glass off and it could be made with a slow rolling shot past the flipper but the likelihood of that happening in game is pretty minimal.
The way I saw it was that if Gem was any easier, getting to SoS would be almost a given every game with Portal being a real possibility most games too. Portal in itself is a really good wizard mode and I like the fact it isn't easy to get there, I don't like the fact that it's down to one shot on the game.