HotRoddin, I do respect your opinion and I see where you are coming from. But, we just have a slight diff of opinion and that's okay....
The way I think about it has to do mostly with preference and money, and as
rwhite65 stated, reliability (cause if one type of method only allows the street motor to run in the 10s for, say, a week of street driving b4 it blows up, then whoever came up with that idea may need to rethink that method
). Also, people speak about the time and effort that goes into building a super quick N/A motor compared to a power-added motor. I can understand the point about the sport, but you gotta think, okay, a while back b4 any supercharger or nitrous kit was sold and people were running on just motor alone, there were groups of people who said, "hey, let's see if we can find a different way to go quick with least amount of engine tampering, and keep the compression low." They got together and through much labor and rethinking and planning came up with a fully bolt on system that could just be bought and bolted on with few (depending on how quick you want to go--- b/c going really fast still requires tearing apart the stock block and even more planning...) mods to the engine and perhaps drivetrain. While the N/A guys were trying to run 10s N/A, the power adder guys found a diff method that had it's advantages. Now, isn't that what hotrodding's all about??? It's about innovative ideas and methods getting us quicker and quicker. Some choose one path, others choose a diff path.
Plus, what about the guy who simply purchase an already built (DSS, Crate, etc) motor spec'd out at 550 hp compared to the guy who moderately modded his stock 5.0 and bolted on a blower and ends up running the same 1/4 ET? Then all the crowds and masses go "Ooooooh, they both ran 10.3s at 135 mph, but the guy with the blown motor doesn't deserve the same respect as the guy with the N/A motor. Yeah, anyone can do a 10.3 with a blown motor.... that's easy and lacks skill/innovation/creative thinking." Whatever happened to the "creative thinking, innovation and skill" (and money) that goes into the engineers planning and creating the supercharger system that is a full bolt on and then the planning and skill (and money) that goes into the consumer modding a 5.0 (and tranny and drivetrain) and bolting it on the engine to go 10.3s...???