A lot of people paid thousands more days and weeks before with the same tax subsidy. Tesla was also handing out free wheel upgrades and $1500 discounts to some.
So, you can defend it all you want like it doesn't matter, but most customers caught up in it feel alienated. You can’t lecture people out of feeling screwed over. If you didn’t experience this, then your opinion is not relevant.
If you did experience it and you don’t care about owing thousands more for the same car over the next six years, then either you are so well off that it doesn’t matter, or you are afraid of confrontation.
This is not a cheap iphone. It’s not a house you will live in for 30 years to offset rent that will go up in value over time. It’s a very expensive depreciating asset financed for only six years. You drive it off the lot and it loses 20% of it’s value. You already calculated that. Then days later, Tesla steals another almost 20% from you and tells you to get lost. Don’t get mad though, cause it’s just thousands of dollars you are going to slowly pay on for years.
Unless I missed something, saying Tesla “stole” 20% from owners is conflating issues with what happened in foreign markets.
I recently bought a house, and due to various factors/reasons I overpaid by 7-10%. Since moving in I’ve discovered things that were broken that I assumed were not, and this moves my perceived overpayment to 15%. Does it piss me off? Yea, it does. Did I agree on the price, and sign the documents? Yea, I did. It sucks, but so does life. Of course this overpayment is perceived, as the true loss won’t be realized until I have sold it.
I would say not to finance a depreciating asset like a vehicle, but according to the example of my house in escense I have.