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Most people buying a car these days are looking for a way to remove themselves from the driving experience. More autonomous features. more tech. more isolation. They ideally want to be able to scroll their socials while the car does the work. It used to be good dynamic was a value add since it made the attention you had to pay to the car have some payback. Now its just additional harshness to interrupt them from what they really want to do.
Safety, performance, and even fuel economy is demanding more layers between the driver and the car too. In new cars you don't directly control anything.
It doesn't help that increasing traffic and things like automated enforcement making having any fun on public roads without making a long trip out of the city harder and harder.
All of it really is antithetical to owning a drivers car. Its how you get things like Porsche and Lamborghini making SUVs.
So yah. Hardcore enthusiasts aren't really a target market anymore. It'll only get worse too as automation get better. I'm kinda hoping it makes actual sports cars more extreme. You get the automated sofas for the proletariat and then hard edged sports cars because they won't have to make excuses to people looking to buy them anymore.
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