There was a time in my life when I racked up a lot of miles behind the wheel of a company car, prior to being promoted and racking up frequent flyer miles, lol. I’ve seen a few things, they stick with you. As beautiful as some of them are and as fun as they can no doubt be, you’ll never see me on a street bike. The only fatality I’ve ever witnessed was due to a motorcyclist and a tractor-trailer colliding.
Here in northern NJ there is simply too much traffic and too many horrible drivers to enjoy a motorcycle (or even a stick shift); there is something Darwinian at work in more rural areas north & west that seems to keep bad drivers off the road. I’ve never had an interest in motorcycles (I’d feel naked/unprotected on one), and our climate here really isn’t ideal for them; I remember often seeing them under overpasses during rainfall.
Maybe in a drier climate with less obstacles they’d be fun, but you are still fairly unprotected.