I have to agree here 100%. My 12 yr old son says it best ‘uh dad, but you always hold the wheel on the top to rest your left hand on while drinking a coffee or making quick turns...where will you put your hand now?’
Getting ‘used to’ something which is less practical than its predecessor is ultimately self defeating. Another owner review said it’s something like getting used to regen or one foot driving. In those cases, it can be argued quite easily the improvements actually assisted functionality and made the driving experience better. Additional turning radius, awkward turning, signal buttons always shifting location...not sure what consumer testing they did with this.
This may go down as one of the silliest fashion or function design changes ever introduced.
(Yes KiTT from Knight rider looked cool but the car had its own AI brain and was able to logically deduce faster than the Knight/Hasslehoff himself.)
I’ll keep my 2018 100D ‘with pano roof’ until Tesla provides a real 2.0 version. This to me is more of the same. Standing 25’ away one would hardly even notice the diff. Especially the same rear lights.
What I imagined plaid or a 2022 model S to be: