to stroke or not to stroke?

If this thread is going racing, I guess I'll sit back.

But if we talk street:
For a street brawler building for Hp makes no sense. Most of the time Im just cruising around looking for trouble. I might be in 2nd or even 3rd.That means Im at sub 3000rpm. And when the urge hits, I need torque to get me moving.And the race is done by top of 2nd gear.So I have got TORQUE multiplication working for me, in the transmission. I just have to get moving before the other guy.I need torque down low. If I build for hp, that requires either more cubes or more rpm. But sometimes Im lazy, I dont feel like downshifting two gears to get the rs up.So a short period cam in a high Dcr stroker would do it for me. And there is great satisfaction, when 2 of us go at it,(me in my 366) , and I hear him downshift to 1st,as I wave bye-bye, in 2nd.On the flipside I dont bother the BB guys, cause they're gonna pull the same thing on me.Then it will be me wringing out the 366, while sucking on their tailpipes.
Horsepower is needed on the track for sure.
But its just a number that falls out of an equation. An equation based on torque. Most of us are used to looking at dyno graphs and like to see the hp curve rising as high and fast as possible.Its something we can relate to. But if you take the torque curve from the same chart, ALL the exact same information is on that line.It just looks different.
When you say horsepower is king, you are really saying; ( torque x rpm)/5250 is king.He who makes the most torque,the fastest and longest,and stickes it bestest,Is likely to be the smilingest.