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You will always get better wear from the Goodyear but better traction from the XML off road. The larger the gap between trad blocks the faster it will wear on pavement due to cupping and such.

MGKMartin that's a pretty impressive blow out for how slow you were going.

Rubber degrades from extreme heat and cold. Mostly it is from Ultra Violet light degradation. If you look at RVS they have Tire covers to sacrifice to the sun gods to make the tires last longer. Tires that are not overly weather cracked either suffer from damage of some sort or low air pressure...

I have seen some really scary weather cracked tires running down the hwy under load last a long time. Since there is no way to tell for certain my guess is that low airpressure is to blame. A leak via a puncture or some rubber fitting that didn't manifest itself as it sat as a spare with no load.

That pic looks like a typical separation blow out. MOST of the time it's due to heat build up due to under inflation over weight or hot driving conditions. It obvious it's not from weight. One of the products that is often used in the tire industry are inner liner conditioning products such...