Like it or not, this is the way we are going. It wasn’t that long ago that electric cars were seen as a novelty that were inferior in most every way to a gas powered vehicle. Now they are commonplace.
The biggest problem I see with the adoption of electric flight will be the rapid obsolescence of the early aircraft. A state of the art electric airplane of today will probably be totally outdated in just a few years. I guess that was the same situation back in the early days of flight when progress was rapid. The difference was that airplanes were relatively cheap to build back then.