if you want to go on a single trip, literally ever

Exactly.

We do a road trip about once/year, and our trips are long enough that renting a car for that specific trip is impractical.

We have two cars, a hybrid commuter (hopefully an EV soon) and an ICE family car (hopefully an EV soon). That family car isn't going to be an EV until it can do >500 miles/charge, especially if refuels take >20 min. We rarely go that far, but when we do, we need the range because our trips are often >800 miles in a single day (usually only one actual stop for food, we pack lunches). Yeah, that trip isn't very frequent, but it does happen and there's no way I'm spending 2 hours of the trip waiting for my battery to recharge.

Our commuter, however, can absolutely be an EV, because the furthest it will ever need to go is about 100 miles in a single day (25 miles to work, 20 miles to the airport, 35 miles back home, and maybe a stop at a store). But it needs to be able to do that in winter as well as summer, and after a few years of ownership, so 150-200 miles is a better range.

I just said I'll use one of the 2 other gas cars when needed and didn't even mention the bikes, but OK, you do you, ignore everything I said about having multiple cars because you're mated to yours for life or something. You speak for the world. You're the face of the majority. There's definitely not an actual silent majority of people who don't give a shit about cars, don't talk about cars, treat cars as a costly appliance, and keep buying EVs for their boring, sub-100 mile commutes.

If you have a garage or place to easily charge the EV when at home or work, the amount of time saved over the life of the car never having to go to a gas station is dramatically more than the amount of time spent charging an EV on a road trip.

might use gas so seldom

So don't put gas in it if you don't need it?

Modern PHEVs are smart enough to run the gas engine occasionally to keep it from going bad

Not sure how you are being downvoted. You’re absolutely right. Everyone I know that wants an EV wants more range.

I've driven from Madison, WI to Chicago in an EV with ~100 mile range in cold weather. Wouldn't be my first choice, but I was in a pinch at the time. It can work, but getting a reliable charger network is the biggest problem. Made three stops to chargers that were broken or inaccessible for various reasons.

That was a couple of years back, and I think it'd go a bit smoother now. The Chicagoland area has reasonably good charger network outlays (much better than Minneapolis, which is a joke). Still wouldn't be my first choice, but it's workable.

My wife has a Nissan leaf with 60 mile range for commuting, I have an old gas hatchback we can take for road trips. Before going off about how rich and privileged this setup is, the Leaf was purchased for 6k, 4k after tax rebates. Hatchback was purchased for 6k 9 years ago.