I wouldn't do it.
I have a coworker who believes in summer/winter tires, so his summer tires were sticky gumball, 200 treadwear, AA traction, directional. IMO this was too much for his Vibe's suspension. He complained that the car would suddenly dart one way or another at highway speed. He took it in for alignment and they said all was perfect, his ball joints were great etc. Put his snow tires on, all good. Got some sensible yoko avids for his next summer set, all good.
I think the super sticky tire was too much for the basic suspension or alignment, just a hunch, and that there were opposing forces, perhaps related to a little toe in, that usually cancelled each other out except once-in-a-while. Or a tire would "load up" and let go sideways with sudden force.
If you run your directional tires backwards, you might run into a similar situation where all is good then suddenly one lets go. IMO the "safer" directional to run backwards (if necessary) would be a normal passenger one not a real sticky gumball.
Just watching tires from behind, a good deal of water is evacuated with the normal cirumferential tread, and the v-grooves *could partially* be a cool design that sells tires in the showroom. You'll notice heavy truck steering tires only have circumferential grooves, of course, by design.
Of course if your tires are on backwards and you're in a wreck, everyone's going to point their fingers at you.