I see it as a guy that wanted to go FAST w/ a reasonable budget.
I like it. Sure I'd rather see a hemi under the hood, but we all know how it is getting blocks nowadays.
Just went through this w/ a friend of mine here in the past few months. He was looking for a GOOD big block Mopar that would handle around 1500+ hp on nitrous. There is/was nothing available. Never seen so many used 572" big blocks w/ cheap cranks and rods in them in all my life. Fine for what they were intended for I guess (although marginal), but nothing you could spray w/o a putting a whole new rotating assembly in.
So he bought a fairly mild used 632" Reher Morrison nitrous motor that makes as much power NA as most high end NA BB Mopars do (over 1200). Plus it'll hande all the two fogger systems on it can throw at it. He got the complete motor AND trans w/ converter for not much more than these used BB Mopars were selling for.
I like Mopars and all, but when you want to go FAST...you really need to weigh the options.
How true it is...
In racing right now, if you want to race ever week and go fast, Mopar is not the brand to be running. That is just a fact of life right now...
I got no issue with Mopar guys running other power trains...I have mentioned it before, the volume just isn't there in the Mopar world.