Oh, I agree. I think the electric car market is way too "tech heavy," certainly for my liking, but I also think that at present, reducing the amount of fiddly tech stuff wouldn't reduce the price of the vehicle by very much. "Well, if I just pay a little bit more, I get a whole lot more."
The battery is what costs. And people who are going to buy a cheap electric car are going to be people for whom that is their only car, so it needs to do a lot of things, including going on long trips, which means having a long range. A 100-mile range commuter car would be perfect for a whole lot of people, except for that one time they might want to go on a vacation in it, or load it up with luggage and take three or four people to the airport.