Is samatha meditation more suited to lay people than vipassana?

Does the Piti Sutta imply that it is better for lay people to start with cultivation of jhana through samatha meditation, instead of starting with vipassana meditation? Also, the use of the term "piti" (rapture) seems to encourage lay people to enter and master the first jhana. From the Piti Sutta (AN 5.176) : > Then Anathapindika the householder, surrounded by about 500 lay > followers, went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, having bowed down > to him, sat to one side. As he was sitting there the Blessed One said > to him, “Householder, you have provided the community of monks with > robes, alms food, lodgings, & medicinal requisites for the sick, but > you shouldn’t rest content with the thought, ‘We have provided the > community of monks with robes, alms food, lodgings, & medicinal > requisites for the sick.’ So you should train yourself, ‘Let’s > periodically enter & remain in seclusion & rapture.’ That’s how you > should train yourself.”