My answer from the cheap seats: No
If anything, what some of the members of this very board have attained with budget builds, with pump gas builds or with full blown race cars is currently making that legend/respect grow. On the street, doesn't matter slow ,fast, GN, TType, Turbo T, Turbo Limited, HA, people stop and stare.
I do agree with the builds all being generally the same, there are only so many configurations that work ... you know some Mags want to do a Turbo LS write up, I personally would rather not read about that. Recently there was gonna be a GN on some garage mod show that guys were looking forward to. On the show they hacked up a GN, yanked and got rid of what makes it special, this turned some guys off.
Finally, magazines like newspapers are slowly becoming an antiquated way to communicate. In the information age people want to see videos IMO.