IIRC Clarkson was not criticising the handling of that pick up because it compared badly to a sportscar, he was criticising it because although it has over 300bhp, the amount of play in the steering was ridiculous. One assumes that he expects a vehicle with this amount of power to at least be readily controlled.
He also criticised it for things like the interior rattling, not fitting together, and not matching.The rubbish suspension also compromised the handling, and the build quality is poor - which is not something you would want in a vehicle that costs this amount of money.
I have not criticised sportscars in terms of their abilities to carry out their particular task, more its a case of criticising the task that does not need to be carried out in the first place.
Do we need trivial cars that can go fast, around corners very quickly? There are some spectacular examples of such triviality, vehicles that cannot actually carry out their intended function on the road - unless you decide that speed limits are for others - the road isn’t your personal racetrack.
If you want a racetrack car, then put it on a racetrack, however I strongly suspect that there are not enough tracks to accomodate all such vehicles in circulation, and the truth is that only a vanishingly small number of these sportscars will ever see a closed circuit - so what we have are objects that are deeemed to be of great desire, that are used for situations for which they were not designed.
This then reduces these objects into decorations. The aesthetics of what is beautiful and what is not is merely an opinion.
Many of these vehicles are rubbish on city streets, heavy clutches, useless for crawling along in queues due to the grabby nature of the transmission, poor rear visibility, and at the low speed found in much city traffic they are often lumpen objects, and yet this is where the vast majority will spend their days.
These things are just daydreams, beautiful daydreams, useless daydreams, and rarely used for the purpose for which they were designed.
Now if you are one of those who put such a vehicle on a trailer, travel down the motorway to Donington Park, unload it and then do a number of laps on a trackday then fine, you have a legitimate stake in them, otherwise you are just another daydreamer.
Out of all the vehicles that can just about cross from the track blast to a practical vehicle, I’d say the best at it would probably be Porcshe, though the BMW M series are very nearly as good - but the out and out supercars are just exhibits.
Quite honestly, if you want that sort of fun, why not just hire one for the day and go on a trackday - you’d get the anticipation of the event, you’d get the chance to drive it in the way it was intended, and ultimately you will not get the precipitous depreciation or the practical problems of day to day ownership, and finally, you would still get the escapism, which is what these cars are all about.
You can then drive home in the comfort of your roadcar, doing what it was designed to do.