E-Flight challenge
You know, up until the advent of the Tiger Moth, the .40-size trainer was the ONLY way to learn to fly at all. Electrics were .20-size glow planes with a car motor and 6 or 7-cell car pack, and flew like crap for two or three minutes. .20-size trainers were too heavy and susceptible to wind, and .60-size trainers were prohibitively expensive for most people. Anything with a Cox engine was virtually impossible to start, and flew like a drunken hummingbird if you could get it off the ground.
Having a choice of AFFORDABLE, viable, alternative learning paths is still a new thing. We're talking about changinging a 30+ year old behaviour at the field when someone says, "I want to learn to fly." Give the glow guys a break. They're not responding that way out of spite; they're giving you the information they have.