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It's a funny situation where normally you'd have to be quite fit and capable on a bike before reaching those speeds but now you can just start there instead of working up to it.
In my area at least, the ones most riding e-bikes are people who haven't biked in awhile and have lost fitness from when they last rode too. Now they're riding a heavier bike with a heavier body at speeds beyond even their previous skill level, and the brakes on these bikes aren't as beefy as they should be with this in mind either.