Well, if you grade it for ground pounding sexiest sounding motor of all time I will agree with you. However, maintenance schedules, costs and MPG is when we go different directions.
Lol..true right up there with a late 60’s big block hemi! I saw a Merlin just the other day being disassembled for inspection. I live close to the hangers where the Reno Air Races planes for the Unlimited class are stored. Was driving by the hanger of one and saw they were working on it. Amazing feat on engineering.