If Valvoline were smart, they would make the Maxlife Synthetic a true non API oil by beefing up it's ZDDP a lot, and also adding moly back into the formula. But I bet a VOA will show that it still has no moly and that it's ZDDP is still under 1000ppm. It boggles me why non API oils don't all have 1200-1500ppm of ZDDP in them, and could really lower engine wear. From what I understand ZDDP is still not too expensive to add in the formulation.
But I'm sure Valvoline doesn't care about making this oil into what it truly could be, but it's all about marketing. High mileage oils are selling very well, and so they might as well capitalize on it, and hope to capture another untouched market, the people with sports cars that have high mileage on them, people that might never use any oil that doesn't say synthetic on the bottle.