Batteries last well when you have a large one (daily commute is a 15% discharge, not a 90% discharge) and active thermal management.

The EVs I see on the second-hand market for $2000 have neither. It'll be a few years before I can get a used tesla for $2000.

I don't think many people claim that the used EV market is very good right now. It will become a lot better in another ten to twenty years though.

There's an interesting statistical bias in the Used EV Market that first owner life statistics are way up on average versus comparable ICE models. We're edging past the point where that's likely "just" a symptom of early adopters and it may indicate easier maintenance curves on EVs and longer useful lifetimes for EVs and that the used EV market may look very different than the used ICE market. Though as stated, it will likely be another decade or two before we have a stable market to figure that out.