TBH I think the really impressive thing with the best modern allseasons isn’t really the bad weather performance, it’s the good weather performance. Or rather it’s the “both ends” performance, it’s clearly much harder to do a tyre that does everything well than it is to make compromises somewhere, and have decent snow and decent wet and decent dry compared to, say, terrible snow, good wet good dry, or as with traditional winter tyres great snow, good wet bad dry. Winters have got better at this too. Arguably a lot of “normal tyres” and supersports and supertouring got worse and probably have stayed there. T
(one thing I always think about these tests is they tend to miss the real nasties, refrozen ice, mixed up slush-and-ice, etc. Snow is not that bad in comparison! But those conditions are just really difficult to test for fairly, and I reckon they might really divide some otherwise good performing tyres. But there’s even allseasons that seem to really deal with that well, while not all snow tyres really do.)
There’s still the whole wear thing (ie, winter performance falling off so much faster as you lose sipes and depth, which is hard to manage on a single set of wheels) but that’s just not enough for most people.
Modern tyres are just ace.
