The question that Tesla is asking themselves is how do we solve the puzzle of battery constraint? AKA make the largest amount of cars using the least amount of batteries? To be more efficient. You figure for every 1.5 to 2 standard range cars equals one long range car. I'm just purely guessing. But the point is they're trying to solve the formula cost versus quantity sustainable car manufacturing. And it just seems like long range is not the most efficient model for the current state of battery supply. The analogy here is look at a bag of potato chips. Manufactured takes out a few more chips for the bag lowering the ounces just slightly that consumers notice but learn to accept that they're getting less chips per bag. But not much you can do right? You have to accept the fact of buying that bag of Chips. If you want more potato chips then you have to spend more money and buy the bigger bag. What they're just basically tweaking their manufacturing formula is all I'm saying. They could manufacture and set up the car line all they want but the batteries is where the bottleneck will ultimately be. Hopefully we all get our cars soon because the current ev situation is not sustainable cost wise in the long run.