I have some information to share with my fellow Super Tenure owners/riders on here.
On Friday evening, I heard from Masaki Kobashigawa at Yamaha headquarters, via email. My dealer submitted a "service difficulty report" (?) to Yamaha, disclosing what happened, and the events that led up to it, to the best of our knowledge.
First off, we have Yamaha's attention regarding the hard start issue. Secondly, they're wanting to use my motorcycle for research, and when insurance is done with it, they'd like to buy it from them, and ship it to their facility for research and study. They want to know exactly where the fire started, and what exactly caused it. In exchange for my "trouble," and letting them use my bike for research, as well as being available to their engineers for any questions that they may have, they're offering to give me a 2016 Super Tenere. However, the 2016 will not roll off the production line for about one more month, so there is a wait.
Masaki also told me that under no circumstance, should the start be energized for more than 10 seconds at a time. The starter is absolutely not designed for continuous operation for over a minute. I'd like to ask those on here to please stop dispensing the advice of "cranking until it starts" because it is bad advice, and costed me my bike.