...it looks like there is no cut-off date for owner priorities. In other words, owners who will reserve in the upcoming weeks/months will still jump ahead of line waiters. That's how it looks like to me.
Ouch. As a non-owner line-waiter, I find it painful to think that owners are still able to jump ahead of me even after deciding over a year later to go for model 3.
I could see rewarding long time owners who showed "leap of faith" from way back, but now it seems people with enough resources to buy multiple Tesla now can "cut the line" so to speak. Money talks I guess.
I hear conversations like "I am buying a model S and maybe I should get a model 3 for my kid as well..."
I guess if the model 3 date priority perk helps sell another Model S it is a win for Tesla.