I think wishing for your road car to have anything in common with tier-0 race cars is unfortunately a thing of the past... just like the rich are multiplicatively richer than a generation ago while the middle class remains flat, the race car has expanded multiplicatively in complexity in a way that simply isn't relevant or applicable to the cars you, Joe Average, and I can afford to purchase, maintain, and take to the track.
I work for a big tech company, but one whose mantra is decidedly NOT technology for technology's sake, but rather the right technology (once ready for prime time and mature) applied in the right places with good taste and great design fairy dust sprinkled on top. We are also often called out as "the last to adopt things" as RYU said of Ferrari.
Ferrari is selling an experience first and foremost, so they used hybrid tech when and ONLY when it would serve that experience. Some of the other hybrids feel more like a Samsung smart watch, technology for technology's sake and for the sake of being able to say you did it, not really well considered as a holistic experience.
I will call out the 918 - it's a $1m car when all is said and done. Imagine if they had skipped all the hybrid AWD garbage and instead spent Joe Captialgains' $1m on refining the V10 from the Carrera GT, fine-tuning their fantastic PDK system even further, and hotrodding their excellent PASM and torque-vectoring systems. That car would tell the same story of the Porsche experience as the base Cayman does, only more so.
Some companies build tech demos. Some companies build well-considered products that give a lifetime of long-term value to the customer. Ultra-low-production seven figure halo cars have always been more of the former than the latter. Tesla Roadster aside, the NSX is the first six figure hybrid sports car (well, I suppose the i8 belongs in there). It remains to be seen where on the spectrum those two land and whether they are able to make the system make sense for buyers.
