Nah it's the combination of high speed and very long crafting time that is confusing me.
If the chemical plant and hydrolyser shared the recipes, it would make sense. But they don't.
There's no point when the chemical plant can ONLY do Green Hydrogen, and the Hydrolyser can ONLY do Blue & Grey.
I could understand the hydrolyser's fast crafting speed if the chemical plant also had the long crafting time recipe, but it doesn't.
The Chemical Plant takes 110 second to produce 2 hydrogen.
The hydrolyser takes 2.2 seconds to produce 2 hydrogen, despite its recipe stating that it takes 1100 seconds.
It is especially weird because the Hydrolyser is a burner, so it burns coal & other fuels instead of electricity, and the Chemical Plant require acid and water to make the hydrogen, which further distance them apart, making your argument about people being confused by the hydrolyser's power consumption... confusing.