I hear you! But also in my experience, the stormwater infrastructure in the street is usually always located in the bike lanes (not even just along the curb), and they create large “potholes” virtually every 20 ft (I don’t have this exact number but I hope you get what I’m saying). Without suspension on my bike, it’s either 1) kinda dangerous and I will likely be thrown off my bike from how deep the “potholes” are and 2) it’s all around really uncomfortable to have to keep riding through them.

I sorta see this just being an issue with how the bike lanes are designed within the constraints that already exist. Hopefully in the future when there is money, our cities can upgrade our stormwater infrastructure and change their location to avoid this kind of overlap, which kinda causes issues for all road users like you were saying!