Battery-powered leaf blowers are so incredibly good that I have a hard time understanding why anyone buys a new gas-powered leaf blower.
However, we also have three massive cottonwood trees among plenty of other maple and crap that amounts to feet of fallen leaves to clean up.
On a whim I got a backpack style gas leaf blower, and now we only use the battery one for "maintenance" blowing. There simply isn't a good analogy to describe the difference.
That said, at my previous house in the suburbs, the battery powered one was plenty sufficient, so YMMV.
If you’re trying to move some dry oak leaves, electrics work fine. Wet leaves and acorns in new grass are a different story IME.
I’ll know electrics are better when the crews are using them.
[1] https://sustainability.wustl.edu/rethinking-lawn-equipment-2...
Like, leaf blowers aren't great for the environment, and maybe mandating catalytic converters for them would improve air quality, but these specific claims are all made in bad intellectual faith.
[0] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/05/010529234907.h...
What I can find there is an hour of lawn mowing being comparable to 100 miles of car travel. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/05/010529234907.h... an hour of leaf blowing is probably worse, but that study is silent on the topic. (It’s also likely that far more hours of lawn mowing than leaf blowing is done in aggregate.)