What some don't realize either, is there's a HUGE difference in traction between warm, wet, greasy early and late season snow (or all winter on the W side of the Cascades! Lol) and cold dry snow when the thermometer dips.
Below about +10F, snow and ice are much stickyer. Below zero, it's almost like driving on a gravel road. But between like +20-35F, traction gets perceptibly worse with every couple degrees of warming.
Up in the interior of AK, you can rip around most all winter in 2wd on bald tires, because 30below temps make the snow packed roads pretty grippy.