A little throttle control, and you won't spin the front wheel. But I never had much of that, so I did wear the front tires out fairly fast. Faster than on rear motor drive bikes. Only when I got to 4000w pushed into a front wheel did I get spin at 25 mph or more speeds in corners. So you definitely CAN throttle through a corner with front drive, with great confidence. Dirt is another thing, but learning to drift a front drive bike in dirt was fun, though very difficult.
But two things I did love about front drive, using one to commute. I was using Y frame type mtb's, so the battery just about had to be on a rear rack, or in a pannier. Moving 15 pounds of motor weight to the front gave the bike a nice balance. And I got to keep all my rear gears, particularly the highest one at 10 teeth.
Front drive is particularly useful when you must keep the rear gears intact. Shaft drive, coaster brake, belt drive, internal gear hubs, delta trikes, etc.
Not to love, tricky making torque arms fit a suspension fork, and some forks would just lock up when I was on the throttle. So I was always trying to see a pothole in time to let off, and have shocks when I went through the hole.