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It seems (after some googling) that the Me 210 was horrible but the Me 410 was better. How much better is difficult to say.
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Here you need to be careful because there were two versions of the Me 210. The first, with the short fuselage was not a beginner's a/c, although a seasoned pilot could easily cope with it's vices, as noted by Johannes Kaufmann in "Meine Flugberichte 1935 - 1945." The longer fuselaged Me 210 was apparently the most vicefree of the series to fly, and suffered least from ground-loops on take-off and landing. Apparently, with its longer engine nacelles, the Me 410 began having that problem again, and quite a few a/c were damaged or written-off in take-offs and landings. Remember, the long-fuselaged Me 210 and the Me 410 were virtually identical except that the Me 410 had longer engine nacelles to house the DB 603A, and it had a straight spar, rather than the sweptback one of the Me 210. This was done for CofG purposes.