To give a more pragmatic answer of "why", and not just "why is it a good thing": Electrification is like just-in-time logistics for energy. It is significantly

To give a more pragmatic answer of "why", and not just "why is it a good thing": Electrification is like just-in-time logistics for energy. It is significantly more efficient to power your cars and stoves and everything else from sources that are generating power at scale, but it makes you massively more fragile (and out of control since you have little recourse against and no oversight over the large entities that control the energy.) It's a great abstraction of energy if you can count on all the power you need, when you need it. It's much worse than the case of logistics because every part of generating, distributing, and pricing electricity is controlled either by political processes that shift with the wind or government-sanctioned monopolies. And the projects are often huge and slow moving.