I mean, the gravitational gradient is much higher. To me this kind of sounds like saying "there's nothing that special about a 10 watt laser, an LED lightbulb puts out the same amount of light", but a 10 watt laser is enough to instantly and permanently blind you.

Its true that there's nothing that special about orbiting a black hole, but I think its not really logically inconsistent (inasmuch as a superhero can be logically consistent) to say "even if superman could survive dipping into a sun he probably wouldn't be too happy if he stuck his arm into an event horizon".