I don't care blinky or boosted but if you're going to make a middle class blinky, why have a middle class at all? Especially TC where at least indoors, a boosted 13.5 could probably win mod in the right hands.
As for 1/12th, I wish 13.5 blinky WAS the slow, "stock" class. 17.5 is just too damn boring for me. So if I go, I'll run mod or 13.5 or both.