Your saying the small block is good except if you use the 318, You should have used the 360 is because it is better. And what you should have went with.
Instead of just supporting the builder of an engine, you inject how you think it is a bad idea and a mistake.
Bigger is routinely better and normally so. However, you care not for;
Possible;
Availability of another engine
Budget
Wants the build a 318 & or just what he has