I believe you're talking about how quickly they wear, not how well they stick to the pavement. It's hard to find a "stickier" set of tires short of a "R-compound" race rubber.
Guarentee if you take two equal X-Runners, one with OEM rubber, and one with a harder compound/longer lasting tires, the X with the OEM rubber would kick the other X's butt on the track and/or the autocross circuit. The tires were specifically selected IOT be the final piece of the puzzle to have a stock truck exceed 0.9Gs. That is a phenominal number for any new sports car, much less a pickup truck. Heck, even most, if not all of the new BMWs pull less than 0.9Gs in a stock configuration (believe they fall in the upper 0.8G (0.87-0.89) range).
Depending on the use of the truck, OEM rubber is the best tire available for it's intended purpose - be the best handling, highest G-pulling sport truck you can buy.
I have had 3 sets of tires on my truck. I drive the hell out of my truck every day. The stock Bridgestones had OK dry traction and the wet traction was just dangerous.
My 2nd set was the KDW 2's. They lasted much longer had awesome DRY and Wet traction and handled better around corners than the stock bridgestones while having a higer wear rating. My Toyos have a treadwear of 420 and even those have better traction then the bridgestones did when dry. The wet traction is about the same. On all my sets of tires, I have gone to the track, cornered as hard as I can every day and driven during all the seasons of the year
I also install about 20 tires a day and get to see what vehicles they come off, how they are wearing and what the customer says about them. I am jus not a fan of the stock tires at all and from what I have seen and heard the Continental are great. We did a set on a Vette the other day and he swears by them and he drives his car.
90% the people on this forum will agree that the Bridgestones our trucks came with suck.
I've had the Kumho Ecsta ASX ultra high performance all season tires on my GTO. They are the 420 UTQG rated tires I was talking about that didn't last very long.
How long did they last? The Ecsta's are a cheaper tire of theirs
IMO anything that last over 20K on these trucks is excellent. It's just the type of tires we have.
Stock lasted me around 15K
KDW lasted me just under 20K
Toyo Proxes have 17 on them now with almost full tread on them