Micromobility (bikeshare, scootershare)

[plam]

It's absurd to me that they would acknowledge the dangers of putting a scooter in mixed traffic, and the dangers of being forced to ride in the gutter, but think that it's completely acceptable to put bicycles in that situation. They also state that motorists might not know how to react to a scooter being on the road as though it would be any different than a bike.

One difference between bicyclists in traffic and e-scooter riders in traffic is that there is a good chance that the latter will be far less experienced.

Empirically yes. But it's also an admission of failure. We should be getting more people new-to-bicycling on the roads/good bicycle infrastructure.