The answer is almost certainly because of how much brain we’re trying to fit in our heads.
Evolution has already given us hugely weakened jaw muscles, shrinking jaws, painful birth, years of helpless infancy and chronic sinus problems, all in the singular pursuit of MORE ROOM FOR BRAIN. 
To be honest I’d say all of those are higher up on the priority list than ‘thicker mouth skin for when I eat a thing too hot too quickly once every couple years’.



Interesting, I was initially skeptical but this does seem probably the case. Western culture is so weird, dangit.