I also have had difficulty finding bike gloves with think palm padding as in the past.

Back in the day, I rode with thick padded fingerless gloves, bullhorn bars covered in thick Grab-Ons foam, and bars tilted up about 30 degrees for more palm contact area. I still went to a recumbent over time due to impending nerve damage I could feel. Recumbent was too hard to live with and useless on big hills. I adopted clip-on aero bars, that put the weight on my forearms, but now am older and that works, but I need to find spacers to mount the aeros higher, and use aeros with wider forearm pad spacing. But I already put a mid-cable/interrupter brake lever for the front brake on the front left of the aero bar, so can safely ride there more often. I just need the aeros higher.