More Major Dollar Overkill on magazine project cars.....Don't they get their average reader doesn't have 100K to put in a car?

Saw this months "Super Chevy" today and I again had to ask "Why?" They were talking about their recent project-a Rat-motored '72 Nova. You would think that would be a blue-collar guy kind of project-The factory put 396's in Novas from 1968-1970 so the motor mounts, springs, radiators etc are available from Jeg's, Summit Racing, Hooker, and various other suppliers. I figured they'd stuff a 454 in it with a TH350 or 400 behind it, slap on some traction bars and drag radials and let it rip-Call it "Project Cheap Shot" or something. Oh no-this baby has to have a custom front subframe, a custom 9 inch Ford rear end and 4-link drag-race style suspension, Wildwood 4-wheel disc brakes, and a 509 inch Dart-built monster backed by a TH400 with a 4,500 rpm converter and a trans-brake. Come on guys. I understand them not wanting to scour junkyards for a 454 out of a truck. Why couldn't they buy a brand-new GMPP Gen VI 427 / 454 block for $1500 and put whatever crank, rods, pistons, heads, to get whatever displacement they wanted from 427-496 ci.. Or buy a 454HO short block that has a forged crank, rods and pistons, and comes with the balancer, flywheel and oil pan. They could have used one of several "Turn-Key" Top End kits that come with heads, cam intake, etc- Like the Edelbrock Performer RPM Top-end kit-, or the ones from Trick Flow, Dart, or Brodix that all guaratee 550-600 hp on a 9.5:1 454. Anyway their 650 hp 509 inch Dart "M" based monster was leaking oil profusely from the oil pan or the the timing cover-they couldn't tell. So they had to pull the motor out to fix the oil leak. Hey that happens to the best of us-that I understand. But then decide while the engine is out-to change the cam. Why? They said the damn thing showed something like 663 hp on the dyno-who needs more than that? The car was already 10.70's in the 1/4. Any how they changed the cam-from a hydraulic roller to a solid roller-no less, and were just stoked as hell that it picked up 2 inches of vacuum at idle and went 10.47 in the 1/4. Ok-1st off if you've got a 663 hp engine backed by a trans with a 5-grand converter and a trans-brake-I don't think you were too worried about a glass-smooth idle. And I don't think dropping from 10.70 to 10.47 is worth pulling the cam and spending another 500-1,000 bucks over what you've already spent to convert your valvetrain from hydraulic roller to solid-roller!! I mean 2/10s for all that work?  I understand they have to push their advertiser's products to stay in business-but why can't they ever build say- a Camaro or Nova with subframe connectors, traction bars-and an "Old-School" small or big block with a T10 or Muncie 4-speed or TH350 / 400? Why does everything have to have an aftermarket subframe, rack&pinion steering, Wildwood or Brembo 4-wheel disc brakes, a custom 9 inch Ford rear, a $15,000 crate motor and a $4,000 4, 5 or 6-speed tranny?  State-of-the-art stuff is always cool, but can we once in a while feature a car that the average guy could afford without winning the lottery?  I applaud Popular Hot-Rodding this month-their cover car is a way-cool '68 Charger with a 383 and a 4-speed that the guy built for $25,000.  That's the stuff that 95% of us can afford and would like to read about.-so let's see more of them instead of page after page after page of  LS motors, SRT Hemis and Ford Coyotes stuffed into vintage iron with 100K+ pricetags.  Mastermind