You'll only play it and hate it, so just don't bother.
All you racing division had to do was take Richard Burns Rally and update the renderer a bit, but did they? No. I mean, how hard could it be?!?
I assume you me your, and by your you'd be wrong as I haven't worked at codies for 6 months.
But otherwise yes, this is likely true, and I don't disagree with anything you're saying.
More as I also don't understand why you'd ever play the game, as you clearly hated dirt 2, so why bother?