Uh, no. He's complaining that Tesla is not paying attention to what's important to him. I'm explaining why what's important to him is not important to Tesla, and the things he thinks are gimmicks are what's most important to Tesla. You may disagree with me, but just repeating the misunderstanding doesn't do much to defend the position.
As I said before, y'all have it exactly backwards as to what Tesla thinks is essential and what is not. Summon is essential. Auto-pilot is essential. Auto-park is essential. UI is "fun stuff" and so is music. Tesla will make the human comforts good enough to sell cars, but they don't care about them all that much. What they care about, what gets highest priority, are the things necessary to the car of the future. That means self-parking, self-driving, summoning, self-charging, and sufficient range and efficiency. These are the things that matter most to Tesla.
Along with making it all inexpensive enough so that everybody can buy one.
It's all subjective, and in a sense those things aren't essential at all, if you are willing to drive your own car. If you do drive your own car, having a decent navigator and better voice commands would be good. Having Bluetooth connectivity with my phone, but having voice commands that would have been considered insufficient a decade ago is pretty bad. I know of no other car with Bluetooth connectivity that I can't tell to call a phone number. I haven't had a car since the last century that doesn't position my seat for me automatically, and this car makes me use the center console, but the seat is in the way if I want to get there. These are all things that people who look at the car find laughable.
On the other hand, autopark shouldn't be underestimated. It's true that many of us don't have a practical use for it, but the hope is that some day, I'll be able to park my car, it will drive itself to the supercharger stall when it becomes available and is my turn, charge itself, and find a place to park so another car can charge. It will need a navigator that's part of a system that reserves and load balances superchargers. It will all get there in time. Those things that start out as gimmicks end up as essential features.
I can't blame Tesla for adding the things they added when they added them. Musk announced these things around the time I got my car and people have been waiting for them ever since. Now they have gotten through the list of long promised items, can refine all of it until it works well, and then add those features that have been standard for so long in other cars. They did it with backup lines and tire pressures. They will do it with voice commands, navigators, seats, etc. when the time is right.
Those people who say it's not important are the same ones who were saying autopilot wasn't important when I bought my car. Except people didn't call it autopilot since Tesla hadn't announced it. But owners were saying how the car was better without ACC and Tesla didn't make a mistake by leaving it off, and they wouldn't want it on their car. Now that Tesla has it, people have turned around. Even those with pre AP cars recognize it as an improvement.
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It seems as if it's gotten better getting the front wheels over the lip into my garage, but the rear wheels work maybe 25% of the time. They need to increase the maximum allowable torque to the wheels.
Many people have driveways with slopes, including me. I can summon my car from the garage, but can't have it go into the garage. Maybe this will change it but I doubt it. It will take time and hopefully they will get there.
