Not only the telephone. . . Pick your invention. When man was living in caves, the ancestors of our naysayers, were likely dissing the wheel! What good is it, can't use it for anything, cost too much, doesn't work, too expensive, blah, blah, blah. . .

Move forward a few thousand years and take a look at what Tesla had to overcome. EVs are too this or too that, "it will never happen" and now GM, Ford, Volvo, Renault, BMW, Nissan, etc etc etc are all developing EVs that only 10 years ago, the 'experts' said that it could never happen. It doesn't really matter what it is, there's always going to be some naysayer that says "It will never happen" as if they have some special insight. It's a good thing that these fools are wrong 100% of the time.