Here are the issues I have with that style of bike lane:
(1) It encourages unsafe cycling. Experienced riders will stay well to the left, out of the door zone. Inexperienced riders will ride in the door zone (I see this ALL the time), since the think it is safer to be "out of traffic." You could solve this by double striping the lane such that the left stripe is out of the door zone, I suppose.
At the same time, by increasing the confidence of inexperienced cyclists, it is luring them into traffic patterns which they are not ready to handle.
(2) In your case, it is plenty wide to ride out of the door zone, but hereabouts, that is rarely the case. That forces safe riders out of the lane - in some cases, in violation of the law, in all cases risking the ire of cagers.
(3) Bike lanes are rarely, if ever, kept clear of road trash. Maybe not a major issue in Davis, CA but here in Boston, MA, right now, the bike lanes are full of ice except for the leftmost few inches. When they are not full of trash, you've got sand, leaves, etc in there. Not good.
(4) It encourages right hooks, since drivers can pass a cyclist without noticing them. Very dangerous.
(5) It enourages staying in the bike lane as long as possible before making a left turn. Also quite dangerous. It also encourages waiting until the end and then riding across in a sidewalk. In many cases illegal and in all cases unsafe.
This city, which has most of its streets laid out this way, has the largest group of bicycle commuters I've ever seen, and I've never seen any animosity between cyclists and drivers
That's the point of lanes like this. To make cyclists second class citizens and to push as of the responsibility and danger onto them as possible. Uneducated drivers are never "inconvenienced".