I don't disagree with you. I know many who use methanol in racing. It gives more power than gasoline because it runs cooler in the engine, but overall, more maintenance is needed. It's rare that I see motorcycle engines melt down running gas (I've had one or two, because the carb mount rubber broke, and let too much air into my engine and it did damage), but guys running mini-sprints using 250cc motorcycle engines grenade them a lot. They could only run three or four races without problems, where I could run a CR-500 on gas an entire season with no issues (save for the aforementioned broken carb mounts).
Now translate that experience with small engines to a 6 or 8 cylinder auto with all the government mandate bells, whistles and sensors and see what it costs to have an exhaust system O2 wideband sensor (ruined by ethanol) replaced. I KNOW. It’s over a $100 a shot and they all get eventually contaminated (corroded) by ethanol. I’ve had THREE automobiles this happened with: Two Honda Accords and an F150. All three with the same 02 Sensor code failures.