You say that as if you’re an expert that’s had multiple RWD, FWD, and AWD cars to base off. You had ONE junk FWD car (by junk I mean, a cruiser, NOT a car to race in any shape or form) that was a boat with stock suspension or close to it. And now a stock low power RWD car.
I guarantee if you had a very well set-up early 90’s civic hatch, 94-01 integra, NX2000, older Sentra SE-R, scirocco, coraddo, old GTI and compared it to the car you have now, they’d all out perform it as well as other RWD set-ups.
and, idk if you’re looking at it like Benny does with the being able to kick the ass end out, but that’s not getting you anywhere either. Grip > Drift on a race track.