I have a different theory. The 24 was not selling well. IMO it was because of the etorque-only option. They had to stop the bleeding. So the big question is, will the Hurricane stop the bleeding? I'm not sure. I will buy it, but I'm not a lifer Hemi guy. I have two hemi's now (20 and 21), and enjoy them a lot, even more so than the GM 6.2's I had. Been in GM since the 90's.
If the Hurricane runs similar to the Hemi, then I'm good. Pretty sure that was their metric and they even publicly stated that they knew they had to make it a little better.
I do now a few people that said no to the etorque and were waiting to see if/what the hurricane would be.