Glass Cooktop: Risk of breaking? hard to keep clean? worth it?
I guess you have to weigh the pros and cons of both.
If you are klutzy in the kitchen and drop your pots a lot then glass cooktops probably aren't a good idea. Otherwise, my glass cooktop operates very similar to an electric coil stove for stovetop cooking. There really isn't a learning curve.
They ARE very easy to clean up as the surface is flat and you just wipe them off like you would your countertop. Sometimes I use the special cleaner for them when I burn something and it works very well. You can even use them as a work surface (if they aren't hot) because they are flat. The burners are adjustable depending upon pan size.
Also, you must have flat bottomed pans, warped pans won't conduct the heat very well. As far as touching them when they're hot, the light for the burner stays on until they cool off. Regular coil stoves don't have such a feature that I'm aware of.