For instance my wrangler is limited to about 80 through the engineering of a low power engine and the wind resistance of a cardboard box.

The people getting the limiter laws passed aren't doing it for rider safety, they're doing it because their constituent's confirmation bias and motornormativity is causing them to phone or write in complaints that they would have never made over a near-death encounter with a pickup truck.

They are there because ebikes often share space with pedestrians, and bycicle paths are much more likely to intersect