Are you arguing that stability control is dangerous in some situations?
This could be a big can of worms. As a generalized statement about all the stability control systems out there in every car, across every possible driving situation...I'm sure it can be dangerous. Of course that doesn't mean it's usually dangerous or a net loss in safety, e.g. airbags can be dangerous in some situations but overall they're still a big win for crash safety.
I have zero experience driving a car hard with stability control. Most of my ICE cars didn't have it at all. The last one did but I left it disabled always, it wasn't needed at all, the car was incredibly stable and predictable in all conditions, from racetrack to snow storms. My Model S has it too and it's always enabled, but it's a Model S, I don't drive it like that, it's just not that kind of car.
On one hand, stability control can do something a driver can't - brake individual wheels. That's potentially hugely useful. However, stability control literally has a mind (controller logic) of its own. What if it intervenes heavily in a way I'm not expecting? What if I'm trying to compensate for losing grip or sliding at the same time as stability control? What if I
want to slide (e.g. in the snow) and stability control is getting in my way? My impression of road car stability control systems is they're
typically programmed for drivers who have no idea how to control their car at the limit of grip or in a slide. Of course that blanket statement isn't universally true. From car reviews it sounds like many sports cars come with systems that are designed for spirited or even racetrack driving, or with specific modes for that, where they'll still try to save a semi-experienced driver's butt without causing issues from intervening too early.
Maybe none of this is an issue in the Model 3, especially with Track Mode. This car is very new to me and I'm just beginning to explore its limits. So far I haven't felt stability control do anything scary, whatever interventions it's done have been mild enough to not upset the car. I don't see myself ever turning stability control all the way down on the street, except in the snow, where ideally I want zero intervention aside from traction control brake actuation to compensate for the open diffs.
As I said, all my past sporty, nimble, tossable cars have been front-heavy and either FWD or traditional fulltime AWD without such a heavy rear-wheel power bias as the Model 3. I've certainly driven balanced or rear-heavy RWD sports cars, even mid-engine and rear-engine ones, on the street and even the track, but not with enough seat time to actually reach their limits. (Think swapping cars with friends just for fun.) The Model 3 hopefully doesn't have the snap-oversteer tendencies I've read about for some sports cars, but I know its handling and power application is still outside my comfort zone, and it's probably easier to spin by mistake than my front-heavy cars were. It probably sounds like I'm too gung-ho about pushing my M3P's limits on the street, but I have
some experience in this and you better believe I'm never doing it where I could possibly crash into anyone else, nor anywhere without some room to recover from some unexpected slippage.
I'm also trying to work my way up to the limits
somewhat gradually. It helps that the stock 235 Pirellis aren't excessively grippy for 4000 lbs of EV. (Grippy enough for the street, absolutely, just not ridiculous grip like a lighter sporty ICE car on similar width or wider 200 TW street/track tires.) I'll be switching to Potenza Sport in 245/45R18 soon, which might add a little more grip, but I'm sure the limits will still be semi-approachable, it's a lot of weight for even 245s. (But efficiency/range is important to me, I'm going to run through the 245s on 18x8.5 first and see how I feel about the grip and efficiency before I possibly consider wider wheels+tires.)
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