Yeah, some of those guys over there are just pretty clueless about these cars or had a bad experience from owning one...
Since I came real close to buying a red '97 VR4 last year, I would have to agree with your comment UberRoo - when those things break, they're REAL expensive to fix! Once those cars have more than 60K miles on the odo, boost leaks become the norm. I can't even begin to mention the number of threads where owners are trying to troubleshoot the location of a leak and why their max boost is down 2-4 psi. Also ~120K both turbos need to be rebuilt at a cost of 1.5K each.
Those 3/S cars are sweet but have their own quirks like ours...
-Chike