So your problem is with the marketing, not with the car? I understand why GM is positioning the Volt as a competitor to the Leaf rather than the Prius, when in fact it's kind of both -- the Prius doesn't let you drive gas-free for any distance, and the Leaf doesn't let you keep moving when the battery runs out.
Besides, you have already indicated that you are “interested”, even though the price is steep.
My commute, for the last 15 years across three jobs, has been less than 20 miles each way. So yes, the Volt makes a lot of sense to me conceptually. I've said for years, and posted here, that an all-electric car would be useful to me, but only if it's cheap enough to be worth maintaining two vehicles instead of one. The Volt would let me have both with one insurance tab and one parking space. It needs to be less expensive, though.
(sigh) Forget I said anything. You like the car, you buy the car and drive it in good health.