/sarcasm> actually, I guess the scooters are fine, it's just the people paying $/15min feel entitled to do whatever, and there are no consequences. I've got more respect for those modding them into free rides and I don't live in Manhattan.
As a frequent pedestrian (no bike, no scooter, just a pair of sneakers and an overweight gut) in a decent-sized city, I have this exact same sentiment about vehicle drivers. I'd even write the sentence:
"It's just the people paying $/month/car payment feel entitled to do whatever, and there are no consequences."
I'm almost run over crossing at legal crosswalks with the light indicating I can go, all across the city at least twice per week. "Dockless cars" are left in crosswalks, across sidewalks, in intersections when they don't have the light, and drivers disregard stop signs and red lights and yield signs on an almost daily basis.
I think the problem is less the mode of transportation than the mentality of the person operating that equipment.
Regardless, I've noticed a lot more hostility towards people who are riding bicycles and electric scooters than I ever hear against people who are piloting two ton bricks of smash-me-into-anchovy-paste steel in an unsafe manner.