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I completely understand that idea of an ebike being "cheating". I also have a bike that I've modded into an ebike from a kit.
On one hand. there's a trail really close to my house that requires me to be on the road for a short time, and having an ebike makes me feel safer on the road.
On the other, when I'm actually on the trail I find myself pulling on the throttle just a little bit when I don't need to. It's a self control thing I think. It does make it feel destination focused too like you said, that's a really good way of putting it. I just didn't look around as much, my memories of the ride aren't of the things I saw when riding really.
It is useful on the way back though if I'm exhausted haha
I want to get a second bike that I can mod into an ebike so I can retire the old bike back into the mountain bike it used to be. Then if I want to just /ride/, I'll use the ebike; but if I want to /bike/ I'll use my mountain bike.