I'll readily admit that I don't know much about what's current state of the art for motorcycles; but having experience with four wheels on the ground with ABS on a couple of trucks (one also AWD), I've experienced a couple of incidents where the ABS actually forced me to make corrections - including releasing the brake and applying lots of steering action - in situations where that wouldn't have happened without it. And for 4-wheelers, it's generally accepted that ABS can increase stopping distance by up to 20 - 30%, which isn't always a good thing.

The conditions where my incidents happened were "off road" in vehicles not designed for that kind of use; but it seems that they were significant enough to suggest that maybe ABS (of the kinds I had) isn't necessarily the best thing to have for ALL VEHICLES in ALL USAGES.

I'll have to wait for some of my biker buddies to bring me up to date a bit before I can offer much of an opinion; but my inclination is to suspect that while some classes of bikes could probably benefit; but there are probably others with specific intended uses where it might not be helpful.

I'll wait to be better informed before deciding.

John