There is another use for e-bikes, and it's one that doesn't involve ownership. Freeloading.
There's a lot of e-bikes round these parts, you can often here them coming up behind you as a slightly higher pitched whine, with an absence of squeaks and rattles. Wait for it to approach, and as it goes past, jump on the rear wheel. You now have someone to draft until they decide to go somewhere you're not going, which allows you to make significant progress through the inevitable Omni directional headwind.
I've never had much luck with drafting barakta's electric-assist ICE trike, because the only machine I've got that's low enough to really benefit is the Red Baron, and that's sufficiently aerodynamic that at 25kph you needn't bother.
However, last weekend I found myself rushing for a train down Nottingham's Deliveroo Expressway
[1], on my Brompton, accompanied by my friend on a sit-up-and-beg German ebike. I took the forward position out of habit, but soon realised that was the stupid way round. We changed positions, and with some gratuitous wheelsucking I was soon blatting along with a fraction of the effort that I'd normally need on a proper bike, let alone the Brommie.
So yeah, ebikes - especially those set up to make a nice big hole in the air - are indeed excellent for drafting, and should be encouraged.
[1] As the new cycle superhighway along Castle Boulevard is colloquially known, for obvious reasons.