Each to his own?
My California is just getting too heavy to manoeuvre around the garage and I avoid putting it on the centre stand out of respect to my back, or dropping the ruddy thing. But a lovely ride with bags of torque. Mine has never given me any serious issues.
My twenty year old Ducati Multistrada however is my daily run around now and does what it says on the tin. Light enough to manoeuvre, reliable so far and fun. But not one for long distances, although I did ride a previously owned one once from Nice to Rome. But I was a lot younger then, although older than Jerry at the time.