You should investigate the
You should investigate the side effects of turbocharging and Direct Injection, like LSPI and intake cleaning requirements before salivating over turbo-only engines.
And despite the blanket dismissal of the 2019+ Forester, you should drive it before you criticize it — otherwise there’s no basis for your reported facts. Not that it replaces a turbo (I had an XT), models with the SI drive can dump extra gas in the engine for better performance, and there’s no turbo lag. There’s also a TON better gas mileage than the XT, which was my primary reason for getting rid of it.