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In your case where snow-ice vs clear roads ratio is different, it might be so. For me snow-ice .. i'd say i need to drive 15% of total winter driving time, which is enough for me to switch. After all, if you study winter tire tests where they are tested both on clear roads and on snow/ice, studded are really not THAT bad on clear, yet they perform miraculously on snow/ice, where sometimes those several car lengths may mean crash or not. On clear roads at legal speeds grip is plentiful anyway, but on roads that are not i want every extra grip available. Bet it almost never plown road by house where i have to park it each day and preferably get going "to those clear roads" by myself and w/o shovelling/being towed and alike help, be it sudden snowstorm, be it winter ice track (which in "sideways" mode if you have enough grip to keep control in some ways even more fun then normal track racing) or some snow serpentine road to skiing place.
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