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I love ICE cars, but after 1 year of owning an EV I can't see myself going back to ICE for daily driving (weekenders are a different story though).
The convenience of being able to use the AC whenever you like is something I have grown very reliant on (can leave my dog in the car while I shop without worry for example). As you also mentioned, the instant and high level of torque is very useful for overtaking (and rather fun).
For sure battery tech will continue to improve drastically over the next decade+, but we have also come a long way in the last 20 from the lead/NiCd/alkaline battery days. The number of discharge cycles that modern battery variants can undergo is truly phenomenal, I was recently in a 9 year old EV in the US that had been used for Ubering with over 220k miles on the clock and the original battery was going strong with ~89% of its original capacity remaining. I think that's more than acceptable given what a comparable ICE car would have had to go through after that amount of miles to stay roadworthy.
I do hope that we find better ways to recycle & further improve batteries though. With all the packs currently being built I foresee a glut of them arriving in scrap yards which we will need to make the most of given the difficulty in obtaining the raw materials they require to make.
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