I’m into mindless stuff like this, so I’m probably looking forward to this one the most. I already got 5 WAV files ready for this, including my dog barking and the whoosh sound from K.I.T.T. In Knight Rider.
I would normally say I am not into the mindless stuff but I do have Santa Mode on now. So obviously even this old fuddy duddy can be won over.
I just did a google search on my 2020 holiday update and there are a lot of things I take for granted, whether I use them or not (that was the boombox year.) I jumped at 2021's which was a mistake.
If you look at the 2020 screen you'll see things like the defrost button just hanging out there on the home screen. It was buried in 2021. There are some safety features of the car, including being able to see out of it or to get sudden freezing rain to start melting the moment it hits your screen. Those features should always be on the top level if we can't have physical buttons.
It took months to get a workaround to the option of having a subset of those features back on the main screen. They aren't all there at any time but most are back.
But I learned my lesson and went from mid Nov 2022 until April 2023 before choosing to update. I wanted to make sure as many bugs as possible were fixed and as many mistakes were corrected before updating. There is also the issue that Christmas is a friggin busy time of year and spending a lot of time Christmas week relearning my car and retraining muscle memory is not the top of my priority.
If the mindless came without taking away important stuff or breaking things that worked, I wouldn't care. But there's always a 'cost' to every update. I can't think of one yet that didn't bring at least a minor annoyance.
For 2020, I knew there would be no Christmas activities, gatherings, time with family (my son refused to let us hug him when we did a car-to-car gift swap because he unit was in outbreak at the hospital.) The car was the only happy thing in our lives at that point. And we took it to the SC and hopped on their wifi so we could update it and then sat in the car for a few hours exploring. For 2021, we happily showed off the light show to the family in parking lots (indoor Christmas activities were still not an option here.) So I'll forever be grateful for the car helping us through that time. But I hate most everything about it now as my car has been degraded from what features that came with the car and what we bought FSD is still not delivered. We had hoped this would be the last vehicle we every purchased and were purchasing the ability to keep our independence for as long as the car was still operational. Instead of me sitting back and the car taking care of me, I'm back to being asked to teach a teen to drive again. No thank you, I didn't sign up for this.