I think this is where EVs will make their biggest headway. Not that they are specifically any better, but that the ICE cars are getting worse, and that if people are simply unwilling to just buy an older simpler sturdier less fragile car (like an ALH powered one, but there are certainly loads of others) then what?
Having to jump through hoops for special operational parameters for an ICE powered car is just not going to fly. Maybe in the 1920s, where you had to work throttle, timing, clutch, etc. to just start the engines (assuming you even had the luxury of an electric starter), and you could barely drive it for a month without something breaking. But today? People just want to put fuel in it and drive it.
Sadly, particle filters will be coming on gasoline fueled cars soon. Plus, the DI turbo gas engines on the market are already not the most robust for a lot of conditions, short trips in cold weather being one of them.
When I lived in the city so long ago, my old IDI non-turbo VAG diesels got lots of short trips. They never minded. They were noisy, slow, smelly, and could be a bit difficult to start in the extreme cold. But at least I never had to worry about a 1 mile trip once a day, every day for a month or two at a time, doing any major "harm" to the engine.