Agree on that. RWD LR was the sweet spot and I was very disapointed when Tesla removed that option (it was never offered in UK). Adding dual motor effectively doubled the price of the LR option. But then, it took the decision away from us as to whether we wanted AWD or not - couple of days a year it would be very handy as we live in a very hilly area.
As to compromise, everyone is different as to what compromises they are prepared to make. This was ours on a recent 2 day, 400 odd mile trip we recently did, everything else equal would have required an extra stop (2+1) and extra 2 on return (1+2) leg has we had an SR, however this only added about 30 minutes to charge time but nearly hour on trip. Both assume an overnight destination charge when in practice, we didn't have overnight destination charger available so I needed to supercharge first thing instead - not included in the above. If we were in an ICE, we would probably not have made one of the outbound stops.
My personal opinion is that if you are just doing out and back trips, then SR is probably fine if you have suitable charging available, but if you are staying away for longer periods where charging is slow or not so readably available, then LR will keep compromises to a minimum - we spend significant time on south coast (notoriously sparse for charging) with no opportunity to overnight charge - even with LR charging is/will be a big compromise, with a SR the charging would be been a right PITA. For us, LR allowed us to replace our main family car. SR wouldn't have allowed us to do that.
Below was above trip planned for wet weather. It was actually dry so our Wh/mi was actually around 280Wh/mile. As a result, we didn't charge quite so extreme, eg Warwick (N) 47-70% 12mins, Telford 45-95% 36mins, Warwick (S) 36-93% 37mins (and that also included some unplanned driving around whilst at destination 2).
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