Going that route has some promising aspects if you look at a larger picture. If you can get clean methan via hydrogen powered by solar, wind, or water you don't

Going that route has some promising aspects if you look at a larger picture. If you can get clean methan via hydrogen powered by solar, wind, or water you don't have to replace huge amounts of machinery right now. Replacing millions and millions of natural gas heaters all over Europe will also emit huge amounts CO₂ in the atmosphere. If we could continue to use them until their normal end of life with CO₂ neutral fuel, that could be a real benefit. And the life span of heating units is often measured in decades. Your rant also neglected that storing electricity directly is hardly a solved problem at scale. Whereas transporting and storing methan has a huge existing infrastructure.