I'm sorry but this doesn't make sense to me and I am actually struggling to see why some of this legislation is a bad thing.
As someone who is frequently a pedestrian, out walking/running everyday having scooters fly past like they own the joint at 40km/h is dangerous.
Proposing to license users so they know the road rules to me makes sense to keep everyone safe. Else well have a tonne of 14 year olds with no understanding of road rules riding (unlimited) amongst cars. Also consider top speeds today will only increase tomorrow, it's likely we aren't far off these bikes getting to actual car like speeds.
Kids can ride ebikes to school, yes, speed limited and on the footpaths.
Yes you will be speed limited on footpaths, because it's dangerous having unlimited speed bikes and scooters hooning past mostly walking traffic, and when sharing the footpath, they'll still be traveling double what most people walk.
I agree that there's a lot of people that ride considerately, slowing down in high ped traffic areas and only accelerating when its safe to do so. However for each of them there's 3 absolute fkwits who speed through plazas and on narrow walkways whilst pedestrians dart out of the way. Unfortunately society can only walk as fast as our slowest person, which in this case is these fkwits.
It's the same reason we have ridiculous car speed limits in some areas, most will go 'this is a bit dangerous I should slow down a bit' whilst one idiot will accelerate to 80km/h in the wet and take out a young family.
I disagree, those groups hate having to share the road with push cyclists, let alone scooters and ebikes