I see your point Bloodline, but consider that the majority of high performance exotics have no electronic assistance - control of the car is reliant on the driver's intuitive feel for what is happening underneath the tyres.
A £45k Noble M12 GTO has no electronics to apply the brakes and ease off the throttle should the driver attempt to plant the accelerator and steer at the same time. You can't buy a TVR with ABS brakes. These cars are now almost considered "affordable" and aren't far away from the price of a fully specc'd C class Merc.
It's all well and good if you're used to handling such a beast, but if you've just got out of a Vauxhall Vectra (as many buyers of TVRs etc have) then you're somewhat used to driving a vehicle that will make it round a slippery corner because the CPU in the chassis is actuating brakes on individual wheels to dial out understeer or oversteer. Likewise a Merc E class will all but steer itself round a corner in slippery conditions, pampering the driver but also giving a false sense of security.
Also, more and more cars are having fundamental flaws in their chassis behaviour masked over by processing power - the Merc A class was a classic case in point. I'm all in favour of using technology to enhance passive and active safety, but dumbing down driving isn't necessarily a good thing.
