I think there's a point to them, but honestly CTOL electric "thin haul" is more important. There are all these regional/rural airports that are under-utilized. It will be hard for electric aircraft to break into the jumbo jet market for the next couple decades. But conventional take-off, extremely high aspect ratio wing electric vehicles could efficiently and cheaply transport a dozen or more passengers at hundreds of miles per hour at distances of between 50 and 500 miles (a range usually serviced by turboprop planes, which are less efficient and no faster than electric planes) without requiring new chemistries or extreme architectural approaches.

I hope someone takes up the challenge. We've got Eviation's Alice, but most of the other players are focused on these eVTOL aircraft or hybridized jets (the hybrid part is a big challenge in itself and offers only modest efficiency advantages).