oh, sorry, I had not realised that in the real world there are no people who ride 10k plus km/year on commuter bikes, I guess I'll just shut up then.I'm not sure your logic makes any sense in the real world. For starters your experience is with commuter bikes running 40t chainrings (or 48 if you've changed it as you were going to), so you're not riding the bikes in a way which is comparable to most other people on the forum .
Secondly, you're complaining that you wouldn't buy another Bosch bike - because when you ILLEGALLY tamper with the motor, you pick up error messages. You blame this on Bosch - who are only complying with the law. For general reference, most people successfully de-restrict the bosch with the volspeed and the majority of people have no problems. Whereas the badass and speedbox often give a lot more issues.
Thirdly, Shimano's motor/battery side, will generally do ANYTHING they can to avoid dealing with warranty issues. If they even think you've used a third party software just to look at your settings, they will refuse to warranty your broken motor. Anyone who has ridden a mountain bike with either an E7000,E8000 or EP8 motor will know that if you're looking mainly for power, these are generally the weakest options available. They're also normally about 30% down on range compared to Bosch for example.
Perhaps I'll just respond that, as for riding ILLEGALLY, all I am trying to do is to squeeze a few km/h extra from my motor, hardly a crime in a world where pretty much anybody breaks the speed limit in their car somewhere sometimes. By this logic, no car should be sold that does more than 130 km/h (I know that you can legally do more on some stretched of German motorways, but so you can legally ride a de-restricted bike on private land).
Volspeed may be a good option for some, if you are comfortable opening up the motor and messing with the electronics. Me, I am sure I would break something, so I am not even trying. Badass on the contrary is really easy and works well for people like me. Since badass and bosh don't see each other eye to eye, I will not buy bosh again, that's all I was saying.
Finally, I was sharing my experience that to ride at speed with bosh you need to push harder on the pedals compared to shimano. For me, that makes shimano more comfortable in my long rides. As you say, I probably ride differently from other people, as I need constant support for long time rather short bursts of high power.