I agree, BWR's have so much instrumentration and individual safety system logics that from a maintenance aspect they are a bear to deal with. Just look at their TS sometime. I've noticed in the PWR world OPerators seem to like LOgic Prints more, in the BWR world they deal with Schematics, BWR procedures rely more on diagnostics than PWR Procedures so yeah most BWR Operators are diagnosing animals. The difference in EOPs is as follows, BWR EOPs are like being on an FBI Firing Range or Urban WArfare, PWR EOPs are like following roadmaps, I'm not saying it's easy, especially with equipment failures but I usually after AOP TRaining I can take a PWR SRO Trainee into the simulator and run an EOP drill and with some help they'll come out ok.
I couldn't begin to attempt that in a BWR. One key difference is BWR EOPs are so Operator Intensive, you have to get a lot of feedback from the Operators to determine your priorities, and much of how equipment is manipulated in the BWR realm is up to the Operators. So a BWR SRO has to prioritize the EOPs, know what the Operators are doing, and figure out what is coming up next. It is not laid out for you.
Mike