There ya go! Screw me! I think your wrong (dead wrong) but that doesn't matter, you think your right and that ALL that matters! Damn it! It's your money for heaven-sake! If you want to throw it away on bike after bike after bike that's your prerogative.
One last thing and you can tell me to piss off for the night... all components aren't equal. You may not know what bars you want, although I did... I have changed my seat for instance. But if you start out picking the right frame you can literally change every other component if necessary to fine-tune it to specifically what you want. You seem to think that you will magically find the right bike after buying them like you would a new pair of underwear and hoping the fit is right (I couldn't really think of anything good). The beauty of upgrading a bike with a mid-drive means you CAN have the bike you want... unless you don't know what you want. I did, I researched and thought about every aspect I had control over and built my dream bike when I know there isn't a production bike on the planet like it, not even the pale imitation that Tout Terrain sells themselves now. Good luck with the search companies are making new and special flavors every year, it's only time... and money.
Stay safe.
I appreciate your impassioned contributions to this forum, but some of the language in your post is pretty unnecessary and unhelpful IMO. I'm certainly not going to tell you to go screw yourself or go piss off, or any of those other things.
Anyway... 9 months ago, if I was buying/making the e-bike of my dreams it would have had a drop-style handlebar (as are common on road bikes). After years of riding on a flat handlebar, I decided to get more experience on a drop bar this spring/summer and was really enjoying it! But by the autumn I had developed tendonitis in part because of the switch to the drop bar. So now I'm back to riding a flat bar for the foreseeable future. That's a non-trivial switch, because you not only have to change the bars and swap to grips, but you also need to replace gears, brakes, levers, cables, housing, etc., at substantial total expense.
That handlebar change wasn't a lack of research on my part, it was a lack of experience with a drop bar. Initially I enjoyed the multiple hand positions and the superior aerodynamics, but my tendons weren't in agreement with the rest of my body.
And the bike I'm looking at has a 10mm elastomer-based vibration dampener in the rear end of the frame that I think will improve the ride quality, and can't be completely compensated for by any other system (a suspension seatpost or other vibration dampener can work with this system, so therefore would complement this rather than replace it).
So may I humbly suggest that you're falling into the trap of thinking that everything that's true of your situation is true of everyone's. That your ability to research and be certain of your wants/needs/desires is the equal of everyone else's. I think it was greater than many other people's.
I know what's right for me isn't right for everyone, my day job is to help people figure out what their cycling needs are and there are a dizzying array of different cycling needs out there. And sometimes people are certain of how they're going to use their bike, and sometimes they're not yet entirely certain and part of the joy is going to be figuring that out.
You said it yourself, you knew what you wanted this bike to primarily be for: touring. You then said it was a lack of focus and research on my part that I couldn't do the same. Except I was coming into this cold, I barely road my bicycle in 2017 or 2018. I first had to reconnect with my love of cycling. I had to establish what I was primarily going to use the bike for. Now that I've nailed that down, *now* I can select the perfect bike for my needs again as I've now caught up to where you are. I didn't need to come up to your level of focus and research, I had to come up to your level of certainty about how you were going to use the thing.
No telling anyone to "piss off" required.
