Product review (5 stars): Induction heating solves the slow warm-up/cool-down time in smooth-top stoves
Smooth-top cooking surfaces have gone from being cutting edge to being "normal."  Just look at what's available at Lowes.  But all the glass-covered-element stoves look nice and cook badly.  After fifteen years, we replaced our glass cook-top with this GE induction unit.  Bought steel-bottom cookware at the same time.

Quick heating, easy to clean, simple installation (given that we already had a cook-top the same size).  With an oven underneath the stove surface, we cannot put in a gas stovetop.  This gives all the speed (or more?) of a gas stove and integrates in our electric kitchen.