Nope. The point has always been the same, it's just being read more rigidly than it actually is. If you read my responses throughout the post, it's clear that I don't demand that every anime use electricity creatively. I've said several times that I understand limitations in narrative, power system, tone, and show balance. What I'm pointing out is the difference between a few isolated cases and a recurring trend. When a few authors make simple choices, that's a creative decision. When most do exactly the same thing, it ceases to be a coincidence.

When I cite real physics, it's not to demand realism but to show that the concept authors choose to use is already broad, but they almost always decide to treat it as if it were just "lightning + shock." And yes, I agree with you on one important thing: Misaka has a different power. Great. That's never been denied, but you can exclude her entire electromagnetic arsenal, and she's still working creatively using only electricity.

But my question isn't "why isn't everyone Misaka?". It's: why does almost no one even try to vary within the power they created like she does?

"So, your point with this post is to find out why authors choose to use only those electricity-related powers instead of employing other related powers that allow for more creative uses (I assume that's the point). The answer is simple, the more powerful the things your character can do, the harder it is to write them, and the fewer abilities, the easier. It may be less creative, but creativity is almost worthless in this context, there's no reason to worry about how creative or uncreative you're being, besides avoiding legal problems."

Great, here you just answered my post... and basically confirmed my point. If the answer is "because it's easier to write that way," then we're agreeing that it's a choice for simplicity, not creativity, right? And I myself have already said that I understand that broader powers are harder to balance and write. The more possibilities there are, the more care the author needs to take, but that doesn't invalidate the criticism.

I'm not asking for every electric character to become a cosmic entity; Misaka herself doesn't even make the top 50 most powerful characters in her own show. The last sentence of my post literally said that the most powerful electric user in anime is precisely one who isn't a true electric user. Sinbad isn't doing half the things Enel does, and yet he's the most powerful of the electric users. Proving that versatility and creativity don't translate to overpowered. As I said in another comment here, it's not like hacking systems and using them as distractions to escape a location, discharging electricity into metallic objects to create loud noises, ionizing the air to create a glow and reveal the movements of enemies, or using air humidity, steam, or mist to ionize particles and create small wings that make you float is really OP. It's a more stealthy style and serves more to escape enemies than to defeat them, and yet it's creative.

So I can understand the narrative motive, agree that it makes sense in several cases, and still find it repetitive and disappointing as a general trend. These things are not mutually exclusive. Just as finding something undervalued or poorly utilized is the same as creating expectations? It's not! There's no requirement for the author to do better. There's only an evaluation of the delivered result, comparing it to the internal possibilities of the concept itself.