In my opinion Subaru deserves
In my opinion Subaru deserves the flaming it's copped. This WRX Trek they've offered is too big, too heavy and too tame to be deserving of the badge. This 2022 model is the size of a Liberty / Legacy only a generation or so ago. Subaru forces its die hard fans to toss away their warranty to get any sort of decent performance out of the car and then they go ahead and only offer the top trim with a pathetically fragile transmission. It's insulting.
They essentially slapped the new WRX on the global platform, claiming NVH and rigidity benefits but no one criticised the 15-21 WRX of having a sloppy chassis. No one asked for SUV style suspension. We wanted the understeer fixed. We wanted more power and torque or at least less weight for a better power to weight ratio.
So, to be quite honest, there's not much love left here. The fans are tired of being let down. Tired of finishing Subaru's cars off. Tired of waiting for the WRX DNA to finally return instead of being watered down each generation. It's time for Subaru to let the legend finally die because they clearly have no interest in actually building on it.
The direction that this WRX has taken does not bode well for the STI and the larger platform is really the opposite of what motorsport needs out of a WRX right now.