How do you feel about a 20mph max?

I don't like it personally. Tldr: it should be around 25 at the lowest and let places that need it to be lower enforce it as such. It's easy to say that there's no reason for a bike to go over 20 in a place with good infrastructure or high density/smaller, low speed streets. But at least in America that's just not reasonable the way most places are built currently. I do my best to stay off roads and stick to residential streets. And when I'm there yeah I almost never go over 20 and if I do its by like 1-2 mph. But a simple fact of where I live is sometimes you can't avoid going on higher speed roads with little to no bike infrastructure. In these cases it sounds small but there is a dramatic difference in how cars treat you when you're going 25 mph vs 20. Even more so when going 20 mph vs 15. E-bikes have 2 main draws in the States, extending trip range/making hills less of a hassle. But also being able to consistently go faster than you could otherwise and that is a real draw for people that often have no other choice but to use the roads with cars angry at them for simply existing. I still ride a regular bike for fun/fitness purposes, and while I love it. It's a night an day difference in how patient/respectful of safety folks in cars are with me on that vs my E-bike. End of the day some people in cars are often borderline psychopathic when something slows them down and in my experience they more you slow them down the more aggressive and risky they are willing to be to get around you. That extra 5-10 mph we have now over the 15mph limit places like europe use makes a difference in that and I don't really know if it would be worth getting an e-bike of it couldn't also provide that. I think lower speed limits work in places that they work in. NYC for example, set new 15mph limits in certain places. This would and should include E-bikes. Because a 15 mph limit works in NYC and places like it. But in my small city in central Alabama, where bike-gutter lines of paint are considered the pinicle of progressive bike infrastructure, it just wouldn't work. And expecting bike manufacturers to lower their designed speeds to whatever the lowest limit is just limits E-bikes to being feasible in places where those speeds are feasible. Obviously there has to be a limit somewhere, personally the safety returns begin to deminish beyond 25 mph and the danger increases dramatically above that. So I'd be fine with 25 being the limit. Id love it if more places were built so that 20 would be the right number. But most places where I live just aren't yet and unfortunately with how things are going it's going to be a long time before that happens..