Forget LaFerrari and P1 – they are both so fast, so manic in their delivery, and ultimately so bloody exciting to drive that they don’t get anywhere near this particular argument.

The idea of sending either of them out into the universe without a whole raft of digital safety nets with which to save the would-be superhero from themselves is, in 2014, not remotely realistic.

But what about the traditional supercar, such as Lamborghini’s new Huracán? Is it really necessary to saddle a car like this with quite so much electronic intervention – to a point where even in its most aggressive Corsa mode you can’t slide it a single millimetre without its ESP system throwing out the anchors momentarily, and infuriatingly?

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Personally I’d say no, it isn’t necessary – for several reasons. One, the car is so much more sorted fundamentally than the Gallardo it replaces it seems odd that Lamborghini felt the need to make the electronics so much more intrusive.

Two, on twistier roads the system is so hyper-responsive, and so keen to engage, I actually found it quite difficult to assess what the chassis was doing beneath my backside. Even in Corsa mode and theoretically with everything switched off, including the ESP, it was still re-engaging, killing the throttle, tickling the brakes, way before the Huracán was anywhere near a slide.

Maybe the car I was sent out into the hills with had been deliberately harnessed so that it wouldn’t allow the slides that our art editors are so keen to publish, or maybe not; all I can do is assess what I am given in the end.

Three, for the customer who loved the Gallardo for all its noise and pomp and close-to-the-precipice excitement, a car such as the Huracán might just seem a little bit beige.

But here’s the quandary, and the reason why Lamborghini has set the car up to be so super-secure in the first place, one suspects. Sant Agata’s traditional markets of the USA and Europe are at best flat-lining, at worst shrinking, albeit glacially – whereas in China they can’t sell 'em fast enough.

And in China, your average Lamborghini owner simply isn’t interested in going anywhere near the edge. They want the looks, the noise, the style and the performance of a Lamborghini, with a big dose of usability thrown in for good measure, but they couldn’t give a monkey's about scaring themselves in their supercars every once in a while.