Are you forgetting cylinder heads and how they are affected by rod/stroke ratio?
I like that you can repeat what’s on the web, but in the real world if you are cylinder head limited, and virtually every small block Chrysler stroker is, you can’t just piss away rod ratio. If you do, it changes cam timing requirements. And pulling the piston away from the head sounds good on paper, until you look at cylinder airflow demand and crank angle.
Then you have to think about ignition timing and about getting the mass fraction burn timed.
It all adds up. Saying something doesn’t matter is ignoring all the relationships between these parts and how they affect one another.
