I feel your pain re e-bikes. I would say, though, that e-bikes aren't necessarily for lazy fools, and not everyone on an e-bike is a lazy fool, but plenty of lazy fools use them. It's kind of like lawyers - is just 95% of them that give the rest of us a bad name.

Around the Democratic People's Republic, most e-bikers fall into one of two categories: (1) parents transporting their little darlings to or from school or on errands and (2) folks who use them as unregulated urban motorcycles, usually on models that are clearly designed to be used as such, with enormous tires and riding positions that make actual pedaling close to impossible.

I have mostly made my peace with the first group. They sometimes do dumb things on the road, but they are far less likely to kill me by doing something dumb when riding e-bikes than when driving the Volvos, Mercedes and Urban Assault Vehicles they would be driving otherwise, so I guess it is an improvement overall.

I try very hard to ignore the second group for the sake of my blood pressure, with mixed success.