I'm aware, I read it. You made the counter-claim "EVs are not complicated." and attempted to justify it by switching the context.

And just like you, I mirrored your comments format with my own when I led with a counterpoint, and then immediately followed it up with the concession that in the context you're describing, they don't have to be.

> have a much harder time imagining how a modern ICE works as reliably as it does

Lube is magic.