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Conversely, if you live up in the mountains, where elevation changes and long commutes waste a lot of your fuel, you should consider moving closer to where you have to drive.
People drive, for whatever reason. There is no problem with designing a hybrid that meets the needs of a certain cross-section of those drivers.
And I don't see the problem either, with not designing it to capture energy all the way down a mountain. There's a limit to how cost-effectively you can package energy storage on a car. Even on Prii, there comes a point where the motors simply bleed off electricity in order to keep from overcharging the battery.
And, as said, non-hybrids don't even store braking energy, anyway.
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