Ok, this will be very subjective post.
I have ‘21 Raven LR and after the Plaid came out I put an order for it. After the infamous yoke I started debating if that was right and finally this week I got my hands on a Plaid. A friend of mine was nice enough to give me his Plaid for the weekend. I had a chance to put >200mi on it - city and highway driving. Here are my impressions (again, coming from ‘21 Raven LR):
Love the body redesign, especially the front bumper. The car seems wider, lower, more aggressive.
The trunk has the same appliqué - potential water intrusion.
Trunk is the same Spartan place - no 12v, no net hooks, no storage.
Acceleration is… OMG! I can tell that 1.5s difference
Overall, there is less road noise. Somehow, the car seems more composed on the road. Not much, but noticeable.
The central console redesign is awesome! Same for the rear seat central console. The storage space is not much but it is nicely arranged. Like the lighted storage!
Seats are nice - not that the Raven seats are not excellent; Plaid have even more bucket feeling to them.
Same as the Raven, no up/down seatbelts adjustments in the B pillar.
The air vent controls are … interesting. They get the general, very general direction of where you want the air to go. Also, I could not completely shut down one zone - there was still some residual flow coming out. It is workable, though.
Rear screen is a vomit inducer, especially if you have kids. It is small and positioned too low. If you drive on a twisty roads you will have some cleaning to do. I would not use it for anything else but AC controls.
Considering that I do not like tablet-like center screens, IMO the Plaid screen is a reversal from the Raven integrated screen, especially the landscape mode which gives you wider view. It is great for watching movies and not so great for navigation (where you want as much forward information as possible). The screen does not rotate. Overall, I prefer the Raven central screen.
The yoke. I can definitely get (somewhat) used to it but I fail to see the benefit over the traditional wheel. It is really convenient on the highway (comparable to the wheel) and (somewhat) weird in the city. Three-way turn requires crossing hands. Also, following the yoke come back after turn is strange - there are moments that I do not feel I am in full control the way I let the wheel slide in my hands.
Something else that I did not see mentioned is that the yoke center is somewhat offset. It adds to the weird feeling.
I never had an issue with driver console visibility before but the yoke definitely gives you a wider, cleaner look. However, it covers the lower right angle of the center screen. You have to move in order to see it.
Buttons are bad - really. They feel very cheap and I always had to think where they were (except on the highway). My friend did not have the latest firmware that was supposed to fix light/heavy touch and that was definitely a problem.
Forward/reverse predictability works very well in well defined cases - when there is a car behind you, parked against a wall/car, etc. Even slightest complication (parked against a lamp post) will throw it off. I would not rely on it at the moment. The manual override is OK but it is in a weird spot - somewhat obstructed by the yoke and I had to lean forward to reach it.
Overall, I think they fixed some of the Raven shortcomings (mainly storage), did a very, very nice external redesign, but failed on the ergonomics. Some of the new things seem rushed without much usability testing. Some of them could be fixed with future firmware upgrades; some cannot be. I was left with the feeling that Plaid is a transitional model between a driver-centric, with assistance car and FSD, with driver assistance car. Therefore, at least for me, it is worse (from driving perspective) than Raven, better acceleration and storage notwithstanding. I cancelled my reservation and will wait for the next incarnation.
All of the above is a biased opinion. I realize that many people may not agree with it. I hope it was useful for other people who were on the fence.