We've had the VI for over 3 years Andy; it's a 2015 (petrol) car with c47k on the clock, supplied to the first owner by DL, and we subsequently bought it from them when he chopped it for another new one. DL later surrendered the franchise, possibly because of FCA demands for stock holding.
The only problems have been a dead battery (it was the original one though) and a Lambda Sensor that failed recently. I'm not saying that Maseratis are flawless, nor is any brand, but I do think there's a lot of bar room experts who pontificate about the cars with no personal experience of them, and I question the authority of a UK review that quotes American repair costs. Service costs are never going to be in Fiat territory, and Maserati does like extracting the urine when pricing spares, but it is a premium brand so.....
As regards the target market, imho FCA goofed when they decided to compete with Mercedes/BMW/et al. I know they wanted the cash that volumes could deliver and there was (once again) a question of brand survival, but they should have made the effort to deliver a more complete package if that's the way they wanted to go.
Maseratis can still be tremendous vfm - if a bit of thought is put into their purchase.