I really liked the idea of the range top being a flat, solid surface, and staying relatively cool, keeping spills from baking on and making cleanup ridiculously easy.
My wife tends to run hot, temperature wise, and gas ranges throw off a lot of heat into the surrounding area. The inductive range heats amazingly fast, reacts as fast as her parents gas range, and I can boil a teapot, pull it off, and immediately put my hand on the "burner". It's hot, sure, but on a gas or resistive range I'd have to go to the ER.
Some people put down paper towels under pots before cooking to make cleanup easier. Cleanup has lived up to my expectations, very easy.
The resistive solid surface ranges still get very hot, and a friend with one talks about how hard it is to get baked and burnt on foods off.
Now with all this talk about the combustion byproducts being problematic, I'm convinced this was definitely the right choice.