I have Goodyear Eagle F1's on my A6, PS4's on my A3, PS3's on my Astra turbo, so yeah I have the decent tyres where it counts! The toyos are for another Astra I have, which is for taking the dog out, tip runs and I use it in winter to keep my nicer cars getting trashed. The Toyos will do perfectly fine for the use that car gets
I covered 40k miles on T1R's and never ended up in a ditch, or even close to it
They're not good in the wet but I never had a slide with them, just drive to the conditions. If you want an amazing tyre in wet and dry you spend the money.
Glad you liked the TR1's more though. I'm not too worried about them not lasting forever, the car they're going on will only be doing around 5k a year at best.