Ok, that feels like you are trying to bait us into responding, so I'll bite, but only once.
Cold-gating, depending on what you read, it refers to the range decrease while driving in cold weather. The first problem is that many claim it doesn't affect Tesla. Well, there are plenty of real world testing videos out there to show otherwise. Anecdotal, sure. But it doesn't take much science to figure out that it takes more energy to keep the battery warm and that it takes more energy to "create" heat during very cold weather versus using the (AC) to simply move the heat out of the cabin to the outside to be taken away by the air. So in regards to the Leaf, it will get less range in cold weather, but so does every other EV for the same reason. Heat cost energy. The OP can get around most of this by pre-warming the car at home before going off on a long trip. Easy solution, pretty much what every EV owner would do anyway.
Rapid-gating, the Leaf only has passive air cooling for the battery. That means if you QC at a high enough power, you will heat the battery up and once it reaches a certain temperature, successive QC will charge at a much lower power rate due to the higher battery temperature. Until the battery cools back down, QC will be slow. The OP didn't mention going on any road trips greater than 400 miles in a single day, so it's good that the OP know about this limitation, but given the use case presented to us, will probably never be a concern for them.
ChaDeMo I don't know where the OP lives in Massachusetts, but here is a map of every ChaDeMo QC station in the state according to PlugShare. Every station is within 100 miles of the center of the state. Sure, we all know that ChaDeMo is being fazed out in the U.S.A., but for now, the OP isn't going to have an issue finding a place to QC within the state.
No thermal control - Technically, it's passive air cooling. Not a system build into the EV like Tesla, but while some see it as a minus, others see it as a plus. One less thing to go wrong and maintain for the Life of the vehicle. Where the OP lives, the climate is cooler, so the OP can take advantage of that. Tesla (along with other EV manufactures) sometimes have issues with the TMS, it doesn't make the news like the EV fires of the Chevy Bolt, but it is one more thing that any owner would have to check on maintenance wise; just like any other system in the car.
So given all that, unless the OP is looking for a road trip EV, there is no reason to bring up limitations and try to stir up the forum about it.
By the same logic, I could make a list why the Tesla Model 3 makes a crappy family car or daily driver and go post that in a Tesla forum
SageBrush said:
Snargleblarg said:
The Leaf is not half a car.
It sure is to me, but I admit that my shorthand may not appeal to everybody. I am saying that
Cold-gating
Rapid-gating
CHAdeMO
No thermal control
in concert make the LEAF a crappy road trip car. The stories of people who try it are consistent: ~ 30 mph average trip speed, so about double the travel time of an ICE or a Tesla or a handful of the most recent European EV models. And that assumes working, available CHAdeMO -- a BIG if.