Anything you strap to a bike has to be reliable. If there is one thing you can say about mechanical systems it is that we know how to design them so they last the lifetime of a bike (wear parts excluded), anything electrical or electromechanical will have a shorter life than the equivalent that uses only mechanical parts. Just look at your average bicycle light set, even after I don't know how long we still can't make a set that lasts more than a couple of years.

The key to mechanical longevity is maintenance, a bit of oil and a bit of care and this stuff will last a lifetime. How many electronics bits and pieces do you know or do you have that have lasted > 20 years? > 30 years?

Case in point a friend has a Shimano bike with electric shifters. Super nice bike, but super fragile. One trainride and a very thin and fragile cable got lodged in the gears.

Several long hours of work later I have it working again (this only happened last week), oh, and never mind the $45 crappy little cable with custom plugs which gets plugged into an in-frame patch panel that is just about impossible to get to. I don't see any advantage over my mechanical stuff, in fact I see a significant disadvantage. Electronics and bicycles don't mix well unless you are prepared to make things bullet proof and that will price them right out of the market. So I don't see this as a viable path, a novelty, something on very high end bikes but not something that will stand the test of time.