In this you are wrong. What I have observed is that, to you, touring is about a measuring contest. You even tried to claim to have a bigger one than a 69 year old woman. Please, you are probably right, no need to post a picture, you have the biggest.

For the rest pf us touring is about pleasurable riding and interesting places on our bicycles. But if it is a measuring contest for you then you can have it, you win, you have the biggest, you are the big man. There, doesn't that make you feel better.

Back to your claim, no, e-bikes are not motorcycles, motor-bikes, or mopeds. I have had these devices and they are very different than e-bikes. They are operated differently, they feel different to ride, and they are treated differently in the law. However, I do understand that I am arguing with an ignorant person who is not interested in gaining knowledge. I see that for you this is nothing but a measuring content.

For me a discussion of e-bikes on tours would pay more attention to the technical aspects, things like daily riding distances, points of interest, and recharging while on tour. You clearly want to steer this away from touring and into a general discussion about the place of e-bikes in the cycling community.

Frankly, you are posting in the wrong sub-forum and you should know better. Or, as someone posted in this thread:
Clearly you should consider this persons advise and post in the appropriate sub-forum if that is the conversation you want to have:

As stated, I am very interested in touring on e-bikes; but you clearly want to turin this into yet another. . . overdrawn. . . discussion about the nature of e-bikes. Again, as BigAura said, this is not the place. Here you may feel you are winning because we are having different discussion and playing by different rules.

While you want to discuss the nature of e-bikes and their role in the cycling community, you will see little argument for two reasons. First, this has already been discussed, ad-nauseam, in the appropriate forum. Second, the directly address your off topic issues the respondent would need to go far-off topic, clearly, most are as willing to do that as you.

I would be more interested in knowing what the cyclists on the e-bikes, on the Santiago de Compostela Pilgrimage, were doing. I can easily see taking the e-bike to the next town. Parking it and while it was recharging, walking to the various churches in that town. That would make a lot of sense. When my daughter walked it she sometimes complained that there were things she would have done; but doing more after walking all day was just too much.

I expect to ride the Way of St. Francis next summer. This is a similar; but shorter, pilgrimage (as an aside, it would be good if there were similar pilgrimages in the US). Are there likely different levels of satisfaction in the sense of personal accomplishment by different pilgrims, almost certainly. However, I certainly hope that the pilgrimage will not be marred by the levels of acrimonious behaviors, smugness, and plain old measuring contests that threads like this tend to bring out.

Again, we do not know why that person is cycling instead of walking. They may be recovering from a major illness, this may a major milestone in their search for better fitness, they might just be too lazy to walk. In my case I have several, documentable, conditions that make walking just plain painful; not just tiring, painful. Then, after a while I just start falling down. As such, I will cycle, instead of walking Way of St. Francis. We simply do not know why a person choses to cycle instead of walk on a major pilgrimage. However, as Woody Allen put it, "80% of life is just showing up." If a measuring contest is so important that the effect is to shame other people out of showing up, then something has been done wrong.