Yeah I tend to agree. I adore the Brits but had an argument once over a coffee cup (ik, lol) and why some coffee cups couldn't be microwaved. I said that ALL coffee cups should be microwavable and they vehemently disagreed, specifically because you could use a kettle, and to get over it.

Then I had to 'Amerisplain' haha.

For Brits who have tea multiple times a day, and because their appliances are 220v, an electric kettle makes sense. It can boil water in less than half the time the most powerful consumer microwave in the US can, because there's no magic to a microwave - it can only put as much energy into water as it can draw from its electric circuit, about 2000watts, max.

Outside of those conditions, an electric kettle doesn't make sense.

Technology Connections has covered it, twice.