340 or 408?

I can understand a numbers matching build. It has stock wheels, tires, gears, exhaust, intake so forth and so on. Just like it was factory built. Peppy little car. Cool cruiser. Neato. I truly understand it

I also understand hotrods. You have a car that's been altered, to achieve "x". Maybe now it's a 10 second street brawler. Neato.

Now... what I don't understand is ... you're willing to modify all kinds of things on your car. 456 gears, aftermarket everything. But.... heaven forbid....we can't change that crank stroke. It's like, the least intrusive mod in the book. Hell in a SB Mopar with a 4" crank, most of the time you don't even need to clearance the block. Or it's very minimal. And, I suppose.. . you could easily put a stock stroke back in.

I can't for the life of me understand this.
Like PRH stated before , that's the beauty of our hobby , we get to do whatever we want. I'm old school and always liked 340s. I had a lot of fun with my 340 and want to build another one. Not much to understand. There's not a single thing stock on my car so that's not the issue at all , just my preference. I can go on all day but it's just my opinion. I could ask the same reason why everyone wants to build stroker motors. I respect all builds but I like what I like. Sorry if I offended anyone in the process.