> a.) there are not enough skilled workers that know how to deploy these. in fact it was just published in the news that due to boomers going in pension the workforce in this area already reduced over 10% in the last years and projected to sink even more.

If this were the national emergency that everyone claims it is, this problem could be fixed in weeks, if not months, by the government training people in the basics of getting heat pumps installed. It's not brain surgery, it doesn't need a decade of schooling.

> b.) most houses that are using Gas heating are not isolated well enough to make a switch to heat pumps financially viable.

That same argument could be used to say that most houses are not insulated well enough to make gas heating financially viable.