Or use a French press for coffee, apparently.

kettles take forever

For extremely small values of ‘forever’

How about a fucking $15 electric kettle? I don’t understand the need to complicate things so much.

What a bullshit excuse. I’m in Canada with exactly the same 110v power, and it takes very little time to kettle water. People say this all the time as some sort of justification, but it just isn’t.