The long version

Buy a Cayman and you have already admitted the 911 badge was not the point, mid-engine balance was. That crowd tends to keep cars long and drive them hard, which is why resale reads like a normal depreciation curve instead of a speculative spike; nobody is flipping a Cayman for auction-house money. It collects Smiles per Dollar because the driving experience outruns the price tag, and Endangered Stick for the same reason as every manual Porsche these days: buy it before the option disappears. The GTS and GT4 trims get tracked; the base cars just get driven, constantly.