The "point" of a sports car I think is to put a smile on your face when you drive it. Open air, noisy, manual transmission, maybe not incredibly fast, able to corner well, "fun to drive", perhaps cool looking. Folks by what in effect are "super cars" which they can't tap in their capabilities outside a track, which they never do often as not.
So, your Carrera 4 is a nice status symbol, but you're driving it at 4/10ths of its capabilities, if that. The most many do with such a car is hammer it away from a stop sign or perhaps push it a bit in a cloverleaf. The GTI has a g-meter in it and it's surprising what 0.5 gs feels like in a corner. Imagine reaching 1 g, on any regular street. (The GTI won't hold 1 g on a skid pad, 0.89 on all season tires.)
The C8 Vette is the same, where are you going to drive it "hard"? And we don't even have the Z06 yet.
If you can fit in a Miata, I bet it's more fun to drive than a Ferrari 458 for most of us, certainly for me.