I'm not sure if you are being deliberately argumentative, or just trying to be a giant Gentleman's Sauasage, as a particular British motoring trio would put it.

If we want to get into machismo, once again my regular bike is a nearly 35#, 38 year old Schwinn, with friggin' steel rims I ride in the rain. Look at my sig line for the rest, not a single one of which is as appealing to most as even a simple Trek hybrid would be. My favorite (and main) was made 8 years before I was born (every road bike I own was built before I was born), cost me $27, weighs double what half the crap in Performance Bike weighs, and has less than half the gears to keep up. Plus, the shifters are on the stem, making it less easy to use and therefore more manly, something I doubt your very likely brifter bike can claim. Toss even a 35% motor assist on the thing, and I am still giving up time to someone that has the cash to go out and buy a CF weight weenie bike. Hell, it probably weighs what a light ebike weighs without a lick of assist, other than when I am coming down hills.

Some of us, however, learned to go out and enjoy life, and if someone else is living it differently, not to care too much. Except, of course, when that person goes round bashing on others about how they are doing it wrong.

Some of us understand that not everyone is in a pissing contest with one another, and will gladly have a beer (or wine or cocktail, as we are non-judgmental) with you to chat about travels if we met you on a tour