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having a technological solution to a problem that technology created
How much of a problem is breaking traction under braking? A training solution might be more effective, as many untrained users don't know how to use their brakes.
Cars got emergency brake assist because people were crashing not by skidding, which ABS solved, but by not even pushing the brake hard enough to make ABS useful. It was more or less the equivalent of controlled descent into terrain - they had all the performance envelope they needed to avoid a collision, they just didn't know how to use it.
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I can't be bothered to find the link, but around my neck of the woods boomers on e-bikes is an increasingly common sight, as well as increasing their presence in accident statistics.
We won't get people off those e-bikes again (nor should we) so in principle, having a technological solution to a problem that technology created seems fine with me.