Agreed Mark.
Of course always the small matter of the power hungry who simply want more grunt on road, at which point the nuances of track bias fade away in favour of general practicality etc. Eg, I for one prefer a torquey car to a revvy one, so a light pressure turbo solution might suit me.
Indeed, after driving our 150 tdi pd Anni Golf for 4 years, I find it hard to rev any car beyond about 3k rpm these days, out of sheer sympathy!!
Fortunately, my S1 Elise remains broadly as standard other than improved throttle body, filter panel and exhaust, brakes and suspension. So its K series is torquey enough for most of my needs...though I am in fact about to put a very mildly uprated cylinder head onto it just to freshen up the experience...I've had it over 7 years, after all :-)
cheers
Campbell