Anyone wanna take a bet that kwh required to create and process a pound of lignin into the desired format exceeds its useful energy output at all low, medium, and high scale?
In anything you can electrify, just the electrification cuts energy use by a factor 3 but some things are actually hard to electrify in the short term so cheap green renewables being used to make carbon neutral fuels makes a lot of sense as we have access to lots of cheap energy, and even more as we electrify more and more stuff but have only a limited carbon budget.
Obviously this has consequences in form of higher prices. But the alternative leads to global warming.