It’s as if they never heard of a helicopter.
Everything about a helicopter is 3-5 times more expensive than a fixed wing -- from purchase price to maintenance to fuel costs -- of comparable capabilities.
“heard of a helicopter.”
A helicopter has a single point of failure it’s called the Jesus nut for a reason.If that single bolt fails you will be talking to Jesus there is no recovery possible. Helicopters cannot exceed about 250mph in horizontal velocity this is a limit of physics. Helicopters are also terribly efficient in long distance high speed travels see the above physics limit. A EStol has multiple motors the chances of all failing at one is virtually zero. Wore them up every other one on a dedicated power bus with crosslinks have two batteries and two busbar lines. Feed those with a single or better yet redundant gas turbo alternators on separate electric buslines. This way you need four time failure to bring down the aircraft both turbines need to fail then both redundant power bus must fail. Keep enough batteries to make a short field emergency landing if both turbines fail.
Having put hundreds of hours in helos all over this planet they are machines that have been trying to kill you since it left the factory. Lose a transmission everyone dies, lose the Jesus nut everyone dies, lose the tail rotor control or the rotor itself due to FOD everyone dies you get the picture.