A lot of them didn't buy them. There are a lot of Uber/Lyft drivers up there and many use the Hertz Uber rental program (https://www.uber.com/us/en/drive/vehicle-solutions/hertz/tes...). I'd guess that most of these would use superchargers as their idle lots to top up between rides.

I'd guess that this usually works pretty well, but with winter and a higher than normal number of broken chargers, those became more congested than normal, and this usage pattern will lead to it getting steadily worse throughout the day.

They do have a place to charge their cars. There are charging places all over the place, and possibly at their work.

They just don't have one at home. That's going to become even more common as not every single parking spot can be turned into a charging space.

Well, there is a narrative out there that the ICE is dead and everyone should be driving electric. The media always neglects to add the caveat that the electric future has arrived only for garage-owning suburbanites.