Don't get me wrong, it's not a complaint. I've ridden worse gearboxes ! Maybe I'm watching too many You Tubers raving about the super slick shifts they're getting on modern bikes.....
In the early eighties I worked for a BMW dealer in Scotland and we had a particular pain in the arse of a customer complaining about the gear change on his R80/7. Honestly, there was f... all wrong with it !
He'd just come off a Honda CB550 which admittedly had a super slick gear change even then, and he couldn't get used to the different characteristics of the BM gear change. To cut a long story short, I eventually had to strip his gearbox and "fix" his gearchange. I thought I was really just wasting my time but I spoke to the guy in Bracknell....BMW UK's HQ.... and he gave me a lot of information about setting up the gearbox. The trick was to pre-load the bearings by varying the shims and to use ONLY the oil recommended by BMW. But it was real trial end error and it took me several gearbox strip and rebuilds to get it right. So I did this and shit, the gearchange was as fast and smooth as anything !
Apparently, at the factory, they just couldn't economically devote enough time to build the 'boxes like that, but Guildo at BMW Bracknell was heavily involved in preparing the first of the Paris-Dakar bikes so I benefitted from his research.
Was the customer pleased ? No chance, he said he'd lost faith in BMW and traded his bike in for a Fiat 127......