The whole situation that required that innovation is not.
How would you have avoided that "whole situation"?
I do have an opinion on that but this is not a discussion for HN.
In short: I believe it was avoidable.
It is a good innovation in the same way a shield is a good innovation. Perhaps people do not always want to innovate in the area of war, but instead doing something else, but they are forced to innovate like this.
it also feels like it could be a replacement to the electric scooter at some point?