its that much of an exageration it warrants being called a nasty deciteful lie. we are talking 3X its rated power for a few seconds, basically only if you are setting up a warehouses worth you will have to take into account the startup current in the wiring calculations, from what I have observed all large scale instaltions have a limited number of lights on each switch so it is impossible to turn on 100 lights simultaneously as you have to switch on 5-10 at a time eliminating a huge power surge. yes the light output take a couple of minutes to reach its normal output level.
unfortunately there are a lot of crap energy saving bulbs out there giving them a bad name, I tend to go for well known brands like philips as cheapo no name ones tend to be the all feared yellowy colour. of course fluorescent lights are really yellow the same as incandescent lights are not quite white but rather yellow too. our eyes ajust automatically to the "white balance" rendering whites as whites under most yellow to white coloured lights unless extreme circumstances like bad quality bulbs or lights that are deliberately of a different colour