On a vacation, got thorns in tires a couple of years back, my wife and I grounded until the local bike shop could get around to it. So these tennis tires, vs w

On a vacation, got thorns in tires a couple of years back, my wife and I grounded until the local bike shop could get around to it. So these tennis tires, vs what's on that bike now, perform - worse now when good - worse than now four weeks out (noted elsewhere, tennis balls decay fast, but - better than now with punctures today. Now, this is a 'clever' way to solve that. The long term solution might be 'thorn-resistant tires' (wish we'd known up front -- but they say 'resistant' not 'proof' for a reason), but if you can live with the performance hit in favour of the failure tolerance ('oops, gotta replace six balls today, not like two yesterday), I can see use cases where that's a go. Yup, should have had a full set of spare tubes. Know that, got spares, but I don't expect three of four tires to go flat on the same day. I guess the takeaway is, tire innovation still has some fruit to pick.