@CoolMinivan-Nobody what you mean is, you buy cars with 100% certainty you will use them until they're no longer usable. ie. you can see 50 years into the future and know for sure that this car will serve your needs for that entire time, and therefore its monetary value is completely meaningless to you.
no matter how you slice it, there are situations where people need to switch cars. at that point, given 2 cars with the same purchase price, the one that depreciates twice as fast is worth half as much value to you. which matters, unless you have infinite money.
if you buy cars to use them until they're dead, you probably wouldn't get an EV anyway. since they just haven't been around that long, and few if any have hit 350k miles. that's sort of what the depreciation tells us.