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This is where the debate constantly diverges to extremes ... either have sensible long lasting tires ... or high performance racing tires ... but nothing moderate in between.
Manufacturers are more than able to produce a reasonable motorcycle tire that would have enough performance and would last far longer. There just isn't any incentive to do it. It makes them far more money to make tires that don't last as long and at this point, I think everyone knows that, we are just not able to do anything about it.
Like my 1998 BMW ... it's an ancient machine at this point and it was originally a performance bike when it was new and would have benefited from a high performance tire ... but its 26 years old and I really don't trust it to go fast any more but I love the look of the bike and I enjoy riding it. I maintain and service it myself but there are far too many old parts on it that there will inevitably something that will fail and I really don't want that to happen at speed. All I need is a good decent tire, not a tire that is meant for the race track for a modern newer bike.
I guarantee your '98 BMW is still way faster than my '90 Miata, and even that is still a sports car that still deserves and requires decent tires. Therefore, yours still does too.
I wasn't being hyperbolic when I used 49cc scooters as an example -- I really do think that's pretty close to the limit of how much power a motorcycle can have and still reasonably use long-wearing, not-very-grippy tires.