Wet(?) Tire Temperature Annoyances

I don't know whether or not this is a bug, or if I just got really unlucky with a setup choice I made, but I basically had to skip my Japan race because of how bad the Inters were in the wet but-dry-enough-for-DRS conditions. I even decided to restart, pump up the tire pressures by 3 PSI (going from roughly 22 to 25, 24 to 27, 20 to 23, and 22 to 25), and still nothing successful.

(For context, I'm in VCARB in my career, first season. The last race I did was Shanghai, and I figured I'd give 105 a shot, and ended up still keeping up with the AI pace to be a solid midfield car. Even that race had changing conditions, and I happened to be better in the latter portion of the wet vs the AI before it turned dry. So... unless it's just awful luck with Suzuka, I'm not sure what that's about.)

Unless I, for some reason, needed to increase the tire pressures to their maximum level, I was still at 97C on the rear tires after about 5-6 laps. I genuinely don't understand why, and it's just really annoying.

Could it be a setup issue? Sure! I can 100% accept that since I'm still trying to figure out what does and doesn't benefit me. I really hope there can be some sort of update so I can have a different set of tires with different PSI mid-race, or at least update the setup page to CLEARLY explain what changes can benefit/harm me in certain conditions. The current description doesn't help much, and is in dire need of an overhaul by now. (Please don't wait until the next game for just a text string change, especially since we have the expansion coming eventually.)

Unless I missed something, surely real life F1 doesn't expect the same tire pressure usage across multiple sets, let alone enforcing the same PSI from Inters/Wets to be the same PSI as something like a Soft set?

Suffice to say, I'm just really annoyed I "had" to skip a race, because I can't override a setup and accept a pit-lane start, because those don't exist. If there's some sort of setup tips, that doesn't solely focus on hotlaps and nothing else, then I'd love to hear them.