Compare this to banks having to maintain your account with them on centralized services. Needing to login, etc.
You can side with the people misleading the masses if you want.
I'm not siding with the banks. But you replaced their misleading with yours. This gets us nowhere.
The "bitcoin uses too much electricity" part is a lie. But in order to get use of bitcoin we do need some electricity, some internet and, truth be said, mining is also necessary.
Generating addresses and waiting for manna fill them from the skies is unrealistic.