We’re talking about the software update process. What do you mean by “the next time the flakey product bricks itself”? You make it seem like this is real issue that people are likely to experience and on that basis I regard it as FUD. I have not heard of the product bricking itself. Tesla carries out literally millions of software updates… I’ve experienced about 60 of them. It appears to me that there was some lack of clarity in the communication between the OP and the Tesla rep and the individual giving advice could have done a better job of determining what the OP was asking and then responding in a more appropriate way.