Makes sense. I could possibly see the scooters survive in some kind of docked model, where the docks charge the scooters thus eliminating most of the overnight

Makes sense. I could possibly see the scooters survive in some kind of docked model, where the docks charge the scooters thus eliminating most of the overnight labor, but nobody's gone that route yet and at this rate it may well be that no company survives long enough to get there. Anecdotally, a lot of the people using them are people who would otherwise have started biking. The scooters are less effort (helps prevent sweating in summer) and smaller. E-bikes are also growing in popularity.