OK now I sort of understand. You have chosen to use your CX-5 as a appliance. Cars are personal. A lot of people love huge iron with even bigger engines that accelerate like crazy. I always found them boring. I enjoy pushing a SAAB 96 down a dirt fire road at 65 MPH much more. To me a good handling car is a joy I huge car that has 500 plus HP and wont follow a twisty road is not a appliance to me it is useless. I literally have no use for it unless I was building a saw mill.
Different cars for different people.
I get that, but the CX-5 handles like a pregnant yak. Now, if this were a Miata, Corvette, Porsche, etc. I would agree with you, but the CX-5 is a slug in every possible way, when you compare it to an actual performance type vehicle. It barely breakes 0.80 on the skidpad. It wallows terribly on quick transitions. It doesn't have enough rubber under it. It does not have enough power to shift its weight around in corners nearly as effectively as a real performance vehicle. It is not meant to handle well in comparison to an actual sports vehicle, nor does it. It's an appliance that people are using as something else. Much like a GT3 is a sports car, that you would be using "incorrectly" to go on a camping trip in. Could you? Sure. But I'd think you were high as a kite.
You know what I am seeing? A bunch of middle-aged and older guys who, for family reasons, have been forced into a CX-5, and chose it because it fit their budgets, and was the least-lame choice of the bunch, and are trying to pretend it's something it's not.
I, on the other hand, got it because it's cheap, works, and I want to spent money on a house and not a car right now. That is why I am driving a CX-5. It's efficient, I can haul friends around, and my D/I ratio is happy with it. Also, it got great reliability reviews. If I had found a Forester, or Outback, or whatever else first, and the reliability reviews were the same, that would be the toaster I'm rockin'. It has nothing to do with its lack-luster on-road performance, nor am I going to kid myself about it being capable in any sense of the term, unless we are talking about it vs. a 1980's Camaro or something.
Don't get me wrong, I love my CX-5. I just know what it is, and what it isn't, because I've actually owned vehicles that handle well. This, is not one of them. For a tall compact SUV? Sure, it does great. But that's like saying that Ray Charles shot a basketball well...for a blind guy.