You're focusing on something that's a small percentage of driving for most people. Focusing on the 1% of the time exception case prevents a lot of the positive experience that could be going on 99% of the time.

But even with that, you're also not accurate on the actual experience of an EV road trip, I see a lot of incorrect assumptions in what you're saying. I don't think it's any kind of maliciousness on your part, just lack of knowledge.

First of all, I'm not constantly and dangerously checking my phone for the next charging station info while driving like you have said.

I'm only ever focused on getting to the next charger. Just like you'd get to any other destination.

I leave home with 100% battery and the idea, okay, first I'm going to stop at X charger at the 160 mile point from here, it's just off the main interstate I'm taking to my destination. I share its address into Waze or Google Maps or whatever, just like navigating to anywhere else... this takes like three seconds every time, and I'm not driving when I do it.

When I get there, I come off the highway and GPS navigate to it like any other destination.

I arrive, plug up, and while the car charges over the next 10 to 15 minutes, I use the bathroom, get drinks or a snack or whatever, set the NEXT charger's address into the navigation. Once I have enough charge to get to it, I unplug, drive off. and the next leg starts. So on and so forth, until I arrive to the ultimate destination.

The main difference on the trip between the EV and the gas car is that I pre-plan the fuel stops before I start the trip, instead of just impromptu stopping when I'm low on gas. That's literally it.

And again, that planning takes less than 5 minutes to do, at my convenience, and before the trip actually starts. I'm totally fine with paying that tiny bit of time on occasional road trips to avoid all of the extra time and expense of maintaining an entirely unneeded gas car.