It can be easy for me to go negative big time. Like looking for the fly poop in the pepper kind of mind-set.

When I bought my Trek DS I really should have ordered Schwalbe Marathon Racer tires. *sigh* and brought them in to be installed.
But I let myself be talked into Bontrager H2 commuter tires over the LT2 that came on the bike. The LT tires(lite trail) have little knobs that just throw up road grit and this i did not want.

The H2 do not roll or ride well imo. They do corner well, hard to flat and will last forever however.

EDIT: Schwalbe tubes are the best I have ever used and only needed airing once a month in 26x2 size.