I think the dealer is partly right about it being due to braking into corners. However, while it's always worth experimenting, I don't think dialing in more engine braking is necessarily the answer (if there is one, other than new rubber), or that it means you're doing anything wrong at all. I just think that with a liter bike on the street, while in order to have a bit of fun you will carry some corner speed, unless you tend to be running at ton-up pace
a lot you just aren't really whacking the throttle open off the corners, which is what you'd do on the track. Do that on the street and you'll be at warp speed on every straight bit of road. Easily doable of course, but probably not such a good idea in regular practice...
I trail brake nearly or to the apex myself, and end up shaving the sides off my fronts. My rears tend to wear pretty evenly in season, and more in the middle in the cooler months since the grip's lower and you're not jumping off the corners as hard as in Summer. I find that in Summer I will usually run a lower gear in a given corner and with the resulting higher rpm/power, like a bit more TC and less EBC. Then in the other seasons, I carry a higher gear and run less TC and more EBC. All the tires I've run on the Pani so far (SP's, Q3's, S20's) have exhibited this pattern more or less, and have lasted about 2500 miles +/- a few hundred.
Bottom line, I think wear patterns in street riding tell you more about your environment and riding style than about setup.