IMO. mopar has never really supported the performance aftermarket to anywhere near its potential...but pragmatically there's not much money to be made in the aftermarket when your proportional sales volume has historically (I'm rough guessing here) been about one 3rd of Ford and maybe one sixth of Chevy. Case in point, remember when MOPAR was trying to sue everyone for infringement? They were so late to the aftermarket demand as an act of desperation to make anything off of the Mopar heritage they tried to 'tax' the free market aftermarket trying to fill the need that Mopar willfully ignored for years.

If they were serious about it they would offer market competitive pricing on things like crate motors and not be selling (as good as they are) the same old 40+ year old flat tappet cam grinds... The resurgence of the Musclecar market was really the only financial interest they have had in it for the past 25 years or so...and even that is small potatos in the grand scheme of things. But I suspect they'll support the new Hemi crate motor because it doesn't really cost very much at all to pluck one off the assembly line and strap it to a pallet.

But as for head and block R&D, I wouldn't hold my breath. to be honest our best hope is the new Hemi, it has proven to be about the only viable alternative to the uber popular LS since the Ford motors (as cool and sophisticated as they are) are massive and heavy and much more difficult to transplant.