I am lucky, I live in a civilised country
I have tried to strike a balance between a bike that looks good enough to me and yet not worth stealing... It is always locked and left in places where the cost/profit ratio is at the bike thief's disadvantage.
I would buy again and try not to fry the internal PAS this time...
I might even consider one with the internal controller. But that said with my late in life mid-life crisis a 25 Amp 36 V 250 W BBS02 would probably win in the end. There is something about having 720 real Watts at the back wheel that is hard to resist.