I'll admit I'm playing a little bit of Devil's Advocate here, but my point was that even if the mainstream cars are wildly successful (which they currently aren't), the Maserati management will have to have a very good reason for building a new sports/GT car. The only reason the board will accept is that it will create a significant return on investment for the shareholders. They've proven that they aren't interested in the idea of building a halo car to draw punters in, otherwise the Alfieri would be reality by now.
No, the accountants are in charge - and FCA has rather more than one accountant on the board. Take a look... I'm not confused here; there currently isn't an engineering lead, or design lead, or cultural lead in charge at FCA, and more specifically at Maserati. Money is the chief driver, and sadly they don't have room to manoeuvre around that point.
The way things are going with FCA, I'm ever less convinced that we will see an Alfieri at all.