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Aluminum intakes have been the back bone of hi performance cars for a long time and they are here to stay, and in street applications the difference in heat retained by the Composit and non composit intakes are minimal. Not even worth worring about.
+1...Absolutley! If one wishes to reduce the effects of heat, mod the hood or cowl for better under hood heat retraction. Further, those of you with ram air design designed intake set-ups (most) are already ahead of the intake air temp game.