Lots of "glass is half empty" folks in here.
If you drive all highway, then you don't buy one. Hybrids are not inherently bad just because they don't do one specific thing good, like say tow a sailboat. Of course you would get something different.
And even in a "compromised" situation, the technology gets advanced on the gas engine and electric motor fronts because of inherent ineffeciencies. Therefore, both get engineering to make them as efficient as possible. Besides the batteries & electric stuff, the Prius/Insight led to innovations that made the ICE engine more efficient, too.
So I'd say stop whining about something that no one forces you to drive and just see the upside for future cars that come from what's learned... even if the current car is complicated with extra "stuff" in it. IMHO, of course.
