True enough. Those of us working in bike stores during the '70's bike boom days sold lots of Peugeot U08s and Schwinn Continentals to people who gave up on drop bars within the first dozen rides. Mountain bikes, had they been introduced at that time, would have been far more appropriate for most of those people, which explains why, once bike companies (grudgingly) began adding mountain bikes to their lines, the proportion of road bikes sold in the US dropped from 80% of the adult bike market to less than 5% during the '80s.

It's fair to say that Dutch bikes wouldn't be a bad choice for some commuters. If I were to champion a category that's still underappreciated for commuters on this site, though, it would be the much-despised hybrid.