The feel of free-spinning front tires is very different from that of front tires that is clawing for traction. Some prefer the purity and predictable feel of a passive front end, myself including. That to me is more important than outright performance.
That said, the G82 will be for my wife who loves AWD since she did not grow up in the far north as myself and never learnt to drive high performance rwd cars in snow etc. and she love the secure feel of AWD on slippery surfaces. So I’m all for AWD on the G8X
