It's funny I expected to get a lot of hate from what I wrote but we mostly seem to have the same experience or opinion.
Hate? No, empathy.
I can see how you'd get to your conclusions.
If your standard for there being value is "robo taxis", fully autonomous "rider-only" within this year authorized on public roads? Musk needs a good slap to the
head for all contributions towards
that expectation, and I'm at the front of the line urging that nobody buy on that.
I can see it being very easy not to grasp the depth of value in the features that are there with only a day of self-guided use. I'd guess that it took me a week to really
start to grok it, and more to trust it much less rely on it. This is just EAP, forget "Full Self Driving" here because that's not what we're talking about. Is a paradigm shift in how you drive a car. Your job is different, you are the overwatch. A lot more captain, less helmsman. And not a micro-managing captain, either. The captain that focuses on the big picture and mostly lets things sort themselves out content with the way their underlings see fit to reach the ultimate goals.
I expect not everyone is going to want that. Certainly not realize it unaided, either. And like any management position there is a degree of letting go and trust. That isn't going to be built in 48 hours. Unguided I'd be surprised if most even grok at a vaguely conscious level within a week the kind of change that is needed, much less acclimatize. I know I didn't fully, only looking back a lot longer could I start to put it into words.
Until then you aren't going to be trying to let go, and there is no trust building. You can't be an effective manager without trusting, and you can't trust without listening and looking for what to trust. If you instead focus on "it should do this instead, I don't like how it is getting the job done", well that's not going to work out. Usually with people, and here even less chance since it isn't going to integrate directions and your thoughts about how to get the job done. ((That can only happen via the indirect path through Tesla.))
You have to set aside your inner control freak, your ego, to take advantage of this. Otherwise you'll be at war with it, until you do. Not everyone wants to do that, not everyone will. And it is no quick process.
Yet EAP that had a $5,000 price tag
is widely liked thing among those that bought it, your assertions notwithstanding. I find in practice the current base AP by itself is a pale shadow of what the car can do, those features you dismiss out of hand really,
really grow on you in weeks and months. The FSD moniker is brining a lot of baggage to this about some expectations built that have not yet been fulfilled. Musk as much as anyone is responsible for that, but that doesn't make it an accurate map of the reality behind the baggage.