@WhyNotZoidberg Agree 100%. But it's worse than that...
E-bikes are not only more expensive and not only have a larger environmental footprint, but they also have very much shorter lifespans.
The result of the rise of e-bikes in the Netherlands is that total sales of bicycles (inc e-bikes) has dropped by more than half. What's more, because e-bikes become unmaintainable after a few short years, they do nothing to add to the the long-tail of second/third/fourth hand bikes which have always made up the majority of daily use machines so all the old bikes in the future will have to come from the small number of non-assisted bikes still being sold.
In the past, the average bicycle lasted for abut 14 years before it was scrapped. The much lower sales of non assisted bikes now require that of those machines lasts on average over 40 years before it is scrapped. This is not realistic , especially as non-assisted bikes have also become less maintainable over time.
A high cycling modal share cannot be maintained with a smaller pool of usable bicycles.
http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2022/03/the-challenge-of-declining-bicycle.html

@hembrow @WhyNotZoidberg On another level, e-bikes are simply antithetical. The point of a bike is that it HAS to be efficient on human power. E-bikes sacrifice an already typically suboptimal function for form. Heavy, bad speed control, now fatbikes which no one in their right mind would ride without the motor. Pedals are mostly a fashion accessory.