I started with the 1st gen Prius in 2001, moved to the second gen Prius in 2004, and then to a used 2012 Prius Plug-In in 2015.
After an accident, the Prius Plug-In had some problems, so I wanted to get a new car. I thought about an EV or another plug-in but the government EV rebates are no longer available. Given that I don't drive a lot compared to the average, the price premium for an EV and plug-in didn't make much sense to me, and furthermore, some of the cars I might have considered didn't have all the features I wanted anyway. Plus for the existing Plug-In I had just been using a portable Level 1 charger mounted semi-permanently outside. (I don't have a garage.) I asked an electrician and they said to install a Level 2 charger where I wanted it would have been thousands of CA$. And I also sometimes find dealing with the charger outside in Canadian winters kind of annoying mainly because of snow accumulation and ice formation.
So, despite driving a plug-in for the last decade, this year I went back to a non-plug-in hybrid, the 2025 Toyota Camry XSE AWD. I am very pleased with the car, and it suits my needs perfectly. BTW, I'm very glad I didn't get a used 2022-2023 Camry, because the wired CarPlay would have driven me nuts. The Camry
finally got wireless CarPlay in 2025. I know some people use third party dongles to convert their wired CarPlay to wireless in older cars, but that's a kludge, and some people running the iOS 26 betas are saying some of those dongles are having issues with the new OS.
This is also an infrastructure concern too. My workplace had only 2 chargers, which people could use for free. When they were first installed it usually didn't really matter there were only 2 since only one of the executives had an EV and a few other people working there had EVs or plug-ins, and they all worked staggered hours. Then a few years went by and the numbers of EVs and plug-ins really went up, to the point that I'd never be able to charge my car because I arrived later in the morning. Then another person there bought a BMW i8, but would arrive before 6 in the morning so would always occupy one of the chargers. The employees there revolted, saying if he can afford to buy a i8, then he doesn't need to use the free charging at work when other people making a fraction of his pay and driving Leafs can't charge. So he stopped charging his car at work just so he wouldn't piss off the employees.