I get there is a converse point here about efficiency and time gains from charging deeper in the pack but if it is trying to dodge queues, that strikes me as being a net benefit (network and driver) when you're probably talking about very small percentages anyway. If charging earlier or later in the journey is inconvenient i.e. you need to get to a meeting by x time, you can ignore it and take a view on the way back.to me it feels as if Tesla has shifted the charger routing from "charge when it makes most sense for the journey / car" to "charge when it makes most sense for the network".
Last three out of range journeys I have done it has tried to route me to a charger in the first 20% of the journey, which only makes sense if it is doing aggressive demand management.
That said, more transparency from Tesla and some kind of intuitive option to set a preference would be great. But they seem to think providing this would be the antithesis of their ethos of simplifying everything at any cost. What is a perfectly acceptable user need to us, is an edge case to them it often seems.