Rounded corners was a callback to the Apple UI debates, not a Tesla example. Having used many car user interfaces with dizzying arrays of buttons that require inputs in multiple places within the cockpit, 6 deep menu stacks, arbitrary decision trees and useless choices (Audi anyone?), I find this interface clean, easy and logical to navigate and not distracting. Out of 15 fellow Tesla owners in my area (S&Xs), 10 love Version 9 and 5 haven’t really noticed that it changed. And it has continued to improve (A/C controls for example). I don’t use bitching on a forum as a useful metric of actual problems or dissatisfaction. Sometimes the bitching has a point (identifying that a certain capacitor had a 90 percent failure rate on the circuit board for Mitsubishi’s Diamond series rear projection TVs), many times it does not and is self perpetuating. On something Iike this, though, it is entirely subjective and if you hate it you aren’t wrong subjectively. So if it dismays you that much, buy another car with the same or better functionality and a UI that you prefer, Or give up functionality for a "better" UI because that is your key driver. No rancor, just reality. And a car that relies so heavily on software for even the non-smart driving tasks (suspension response, braking, battery charging and cooling and myriad others) is going to need updates. For every idiotic fart mode change that some intern is coding as a project there are a myriad of behind the scenes fixes and improvements. People bitched on forums for 2 years about Directv’s UI change mostly because they had to re-learn ingrained habits in order to use a much superior and function interface. So go get Dish! In any case, no offense intended.
