I will admit to being a bit of a bike snob. I tend to ride high end gear, or at least upgrade to what I selectively consider high end gear. But, when it comes to bicycles I am a complete whore. I really will ride anything once, and love to swap bikes with people my size for a short section of trail. Obviously you have to know the person well enough to know they will not take off with it. The thing about the Bay Area is there are so many incredible riders and most of the rich, snobby elite folks are not electrified. Those are the middle tier riders. The fast guys and gals ride all kinds of stuff. When I was in fairly decent shape I regularly got passed by this guy on a rigid single speed and it was not carbon. The guy rocked. There are a few high end riders on electrics just because. But most of the fast folks I know just ride, because they can.
I know this one guy at work who was talking about passing guys on electric bikes. He is just this old, really low key guy that crushes it on 2rd gen out of the box mid tier bikes. There was this guy Roy in the Bay Area, who recently passed away, that would regularly keep up with just about anyone short of a pro on an old 1980's Trek, half the time it had panniers on it. There is this story of him riding one of his first Rando's where he rides up to this guy who is a local legend, and has the course record for this ride, and Roy rides with him to the finish, while talking. At first people thought it was some kind of stunt. But it was just Roy. One of the most low key guys you could meet.
I do agree though that road bikers tend to be a snobby bunch and quite often aggro. Mountain biking seems to be heading in the same direction. The gravel crowd can be but is still eclectic enough to be fairly chill if not completely stoned out of their minds. Drop bar guys are looked on kind of like a bunch of weirdos since they do not really fit in either world.
Have fun out there and,
Here's to sweat in your eye