Playing devil’s advocate here (I use a battery one that’s lasted almost 15 years and works fine on modern Lithium instead of NiCad - Black & Decker came with a weedwhacker too). Electric is fine as a single home consumer, but not for working crews. Modern Li batteries last pretty long for a single user doing basic tasks. (The real racket is in weedwhacker spools, they’re like $10ea now. I digress.)

I live in the deep south of Texas (the muggy, humid greenish part not the desert) - it’s very common to have “working crews” of lawn maintenance out and about all the time. Generally speaking they just drive a truck + trailer full of gear around and look for opportunities. More common than an ice cream truck or FedEx driver after a flood rain like we get, get a deal for $20 fast & clean.

These working crews use gas powered gear simply because electric cannot keep up with the duration and use patterns required by their team without investing in a lot of batteries ($$) and a way to recharge them on the go (generator == gasoline, maybe natural gas if lucky). I haven’t looked into the CA ban from this article to find out if they’ve carved out an exception or not for working crews, licensed or not.

Regarding the linked Texas law - read it, it actually prohibits any local (non state, non Fed) municipality from banning any device based on it’s power source. This includes… surprise… solar panels on your roof! There are communities who think they’re “ugly” and ban solar roof panels, it’s real. The law does not prohibit any ordinances or regulation therein of said energy source (for example noise laws, quiet time laws, etc.) but they cannot supersede state/federal laws. This article flippantly wants you to believe it was enacted just to preserve gas lawn blowers using lazy wordsmithing for clicks.