Is it worth the $ to build a 5.9 Magnum (or LA 360) without making it a stroker?

It doesn't take much of a stock-stroke 360 to smoke the fattest street tires you can fit in the stock tubs,of your big-tubbed street Duster/Demon/Barracuda, all the way thru first gear, and with the right rear gears, all the way to 60 mph. What advantage does a stroker have over this?
But I made a mistake earlier;
I do see one clear advantage for big strokers, namely; you can run a lot smaller rear gear, if fuel-mileage is a concern. Say 2.94s or less.
And a lil less clear, is you can run a much smaller TC, if you care to. The TC alone takes a big bite out of the cost of the stroker kit.
Between those two, you can build your combo to use just one gear,say 2.94s, on the run to 60, trapping at ~5650.
So there is that........ Plus you can tow anything,lol