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The problem is that most electric stove tops duty cycles this way. It's terrible for low temperature applications in something that doesn't have the mass to retain heat. And something that does have the mass takes a long time to hit those low temps unless you start with longer time on duty cycles. They also suck for precise heat control.
You can't use a resister anywhere else in the circuit because it would be wildly inefficient that way. The only option might be regulating voltage. But that's easier said than done.
I don't think electric is necessarily bad. But it's choosing the right tool for the job and both should probably be in a range instead of having it be one or the other.
The other problem is that duty cycles are such a nerdy thing to be concerned about nobody has any answers about them. The specifications don't have them, the sales guys know nothing, and short of disassembling the stove and looking up the model number of the regulator I can't make an informed decisions. Which sucks when you're dropping a thousand bucks on a stove and a few hundred to get electric run to my kitchen.
Which is why I would love to be able to test drive a stove. Even if it's just with a pot of water I could get an idea of how frequent the duty cycles are on various settings. But there's no appliance store that will let me do that.