Understood. Let me clarify. I had a brief chat with the service center and a (somewhat cryptic) line in e-mail was read to me about the automatic suspension being changed. (The text was very similar to the vague language in the release notes about the SOC estimation.)
My point is that it is definitely by design that they changed something here, not a glitch in 5.8 that "something moved in the matrix" with regard to the air suspension automatic behavior.
The exact intended behavior of that change -- and whether the cars are behaving as expected -- is still an open question and I look forward to hearing Tesla's official comments.
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Personal request:
In your email thread with ownership, please include a request that we be able to read the release notes for the pending update before applying the update.
I realize in this particular case the release notes don't speak to the suspension at all so it wouldn't help, but it would be a step in the right direction.
Thanks!