It barely fits in the bloody car park. So bad for pedestrians and the environment.
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Lifespan is not really a huge issue. You might lose 5-10% of the battery after 100k miles. Tesla's degradation after 200k miles is 12%. There is much less maintenance that needs to be done on them overall. It is indeed a larger cost up front but even with our cheap gas here in the US, it can pay for itself after 6 or 7 years.
But you are correct that access to them for poorer people. We do need to make a push to at least get level 1 chargers in apartment garages.
As far as environmental impact, cobalt is the worst of it but that is being passed out. Lithium mining is done where there is no life at all. A large chunk of the lithium in our batteries is from the Atacama Desert which has large portions that have no recorded instances of rain. Regardless, it is still significantly better than using fossil fuels in internal combustion engine.