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The current status quo is about 20 minutes every 3 hours (in a model 3), which is a perfect travel pace IMO. People consistently underestimate how long they spend stopped on road trips. The EV adds about 4 minutes per hour for each hour past 3. It's really not a big deal.
What is a bigger deal is when charger locations are poorly located, requiring inefficient stopping schedules.
You're obviously free to do road trips the way you want to do them, and 20 minutes every 3 hours is the kind of thing I can do with my kids, but on trips I'm doing without the kids I'd prefer the option of stopping for less than 10 minutes every 3 hours. I have a 500 mile trip planned this summer and I'm basically gonna throw in an overnight hotel stay in part to make it easier to top off at a charger while we sleep, but if I still had a gasoline vehicle I probably would just be driving straight through by leaving early in the morning, rather than doing an evening drive starting the night before.
And I'm with you on the charger locations being a bigger inconvenience. It takes a lot more planning/flexibility (ABRP and a few backup plans in case certain chargers are occupied or out of service or slower than advertised when I get there). But still, I'd like to see improvement in the driver experience for all of it.