Shortlived Boxster engines survey

[Cbonilla]

Not a shortlived failure, but to me any such failure is short lived in a car like this, at least below 200k miles, especially if its a known weak point

2003 Boxster S, 105k miles
Tiptronic (so I never had the chance to address it at a reasonable cost as the trans has never ben out of the car)
Regularly serviced

Never tracked, owned it since it was 9 months old with 6k miles.

IMS failure (in the opinion of my shop, the engine hasn't been torn down)

Problem started with a horrendous clatter that I assume was the pistons meeitng the valves. Oil spewed out of the engine and onto the ground

Pissed at the class action settlement that Porsche agreed to (I'm sure the lawyers got paid handsomly) that allowed these cars to stay on the road and only be repaired after they failed within a short mileage window. Shameful

Happened a month ago, still deciding what course to take -- do I throw good money after bad?

Carlos