And I find it boring to build a model that misses all essential things about the original with eventually an exception from the exactly scaled down measures. It is diffucult to make a theory on why some models give you more fun than others. But I find it interesting enough to start a discussion on the subject by commenting some examples. To the best paper models ever designed are the birds from Birdmobile. You allways get very surprised to find that some curiously formed paper pieces so simply could be glued together to a living image of an individual bird.
Many kit publishers seem to prefer issuing models of the most famous ships, airplanes or buildings.
Probably because that s the way they believe to get the highest selling-results. My own experience is instead that model builders prefer more odd things to build and try to avoid the tourist traps. When I let school children choose very freely what to build, they often choose typical things in their neighborhood that most grewn up people not look upon as worthy enough for modelbuilding. Of importance to make a kit appealing is of course the graphic form. Especially for cut-outs where different countries have their own traditions.