I wouldn't be so sure about the first point. Since you were a Prius owner, I'm sure you've seen enough of the anti-Prius, anti-hybrid bashing in the past, along plenty of misinformation. Unfortunately, all of that still goes on today and now has spread to EVs.
I've spoken to a # of people, sometimes just acquaintances or people I just met about my Prius and although I wouldn't put them in the hater camp, many of them have been influenced by the misinformation (e.g. battery is $5K-10K to replace, must be replaced every few years, :roll: where do you plug it in? (this is before the PiP), etc.)
On other car forums where the automaker has no hybrids, no meaningful hybrid presence or where the type of car is antithetical to hybrids, the hybrid and EV bashing and misinformation is rampant.
They didn't go out of their way to create and account to make negative comments on EVs and hybrids. They've had an account all along and are active in other threads.