Frequently "improvements" come at the expense of compromising some key feature for lots of users.
This is particularly true in tall organizations where the people doing procurement are far from the users.
Cultural hostility among a subpopulation to electric vehicles as "woke"? Ordinary sentimentality and the natural human discomfort with change?
I have great faith in the ability of ahem some individuals to harm themselves out of spite or inability to recognize inbound leopards, but I'm pretty sure that even those would find the new vehicles to be an improvement even if they're EVs - at least if they're actually driving the old and new vehicles.
plenty of folks will soil themselves if it means the people they dislike will have to smell it