Here is one of those things that if you did not experience it, you would just not know.
Why are tractor tires installed with the tread pointed forward at the top and the manure spreaders that they used to pull, back in the day, were mechanically driven from the axle with tractor tires pointed in the opposite direction?
When I get time, I will add to this and just might publish the answer.
It will give you time to think about it.