You're out on two wheels. I don't give a shit that you pedal it. You know how unfriendly car drivers are. You know how bad the streets really are. You know what it's like to be outside with no AC. You know the joy of leaning into a good turn. You know what it's like to be connected to the world you're traversing by virtue of being in it. You know what it's like to strap on some gear because shit can go wrong.
Anyone trying to gatekeep or divide the two is just wrong.
that order of magnitude more kinetic energy, and the bike in question weighing about twice as much as you, really, really change some aspects of it.
Though that's mostly just a quantitative difference in terms of how horrific certain failure modes can be!
