Having built a few kit aircraft for myself I doubt if one of the actual MK26A or B Spitfire builders regards their projects as anything other than a scale replica of a charismatic aircraft and nothing more.
For sure the main spar is no replica of the original ones!
Watching a Mk24B being built near Blackbushe I can see it isn't a 'fastbuild' type of kit.
Better a well built scale Spitfire than no Spitfire at all. The French Mosquito replica is better than no Mosquito at all.
But for the hairs on the back of the neck/lump in throat stuff real Merlins propelling real Spitfires and Mosquitos, Lancasters has it every time.
