Agree completely with your
Agree completely with your opinion here. When I was researching the 2020 Forester I was thinking about buying every automotive journalist review was only on the Top trim level, Premier here in Canada, which is called Touring in the USA. (Oddly enough Subaru in Canada calls the third from bottom of the six trim levels Touring which is a bit confusing). The journalists spend half the article talking about the Driver Focus Distraction Mitigation System which is only available on the top model and they complain about no longer being able to get the turbo engine from the old XT model, which only accounted for a very small percentage of sales and that's why it is no longer available. They seem to forget that, unlike auto journalists, the public actually has to pay for the vehicles and therefore doesn't want to shell out extra thousands of dollars for frivolous features. The Forester is a utility vehicle, not a sports or luxury car. I don't care if the brown leather in the Premier model looks like an Audi interior. Tell me about how the vehicle drives in normal real world use, fuel economy, leg room, cargo space, storage, build quality, etc. Thankfully these days you can find actual test drives on YouTube that are more reflective of the general public.