MediaLab vs. DirectRT

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I used to use MediaLab for social psychology experiment few years ago. Now I am conducting cognitive experiments and not sure if I need MediaLab or DirectRT.

In a typical experiment, I need to present 80 single words. Some words are presented once and other twice. Some words that are presented twice repeat right after the first presentation and others only after several other words are presented (20/40). So I have complex orders for presenting the stimuli, and I care about randomization and counterbalancing.
I also need to collect strings as inputs.

I care about presentation time only in the level of seconds. I don't have any problem with having my data file with different row for each trail.

I want the design of the experiment to be as easy as possible. Which software would be easier to use?