Cities and road design/rules/regulations definitely need to be completely reconstructed. It's awful how everything gets lumped to either being a car equivalent or a bike equivalent with almost no accommodations for bikes, and then how fucking awful it is to have to interact with the government for license testing, etc. on top of it.

Edit: So you have reasons to say scooters and equivalents show be treated more seriously. But to incentivize people using them others want them less government regulated than cars to get away from auto-centrism. Just shitty situation all around.