Engineers often do stuff without any thought of maintenance. Just ask mechanics/maintenance personnel.

Having performed repairs on a BMW motorcycle, I am quite aware. It is a good point, but I highly doubt that it would play a role in this case. There must be something there that we are missing.

at this point anything is possible: they barely write the specs

https//www.heise.de/en/news/BMW-Huge-recall-and-profit-warning-due-to-defective-Conti-brakes-9864793.html