I personally care less about the technology in use and more about how it functions for the user. If a Tesla's combination of cameras, a touch screen interface and scroll wheel controls results in a better driving experience than other cars, that's great. It is reasonable, however, for users to point out when the experience of specific features is inferior to cars made 10-20 years ago.
So many of these conversations end up like this:
A: "This sucks. I have to manually control my wipers every 15 seconds when it rains. It was much easier in other cars I have owned.
B: "You need to understand that Tesla uses magic tech gubbins to do it better, and they update it all the time."
A: "I know, that's what I thought I was buying, but this shouldn't be on the market, it's worse than other cars which allow a quick flick of a control to solve the problem".
B: "Tesla doesn't do physical controls."
A: "Yes, and the Tesla UI that replaces that it worse than physical controls."
B: "But it keeps getting better. Upcoming update 2026.18.17.a.$@& will include the substance matrix from the divergent branch of the Zeldark sector, and that might make the cameras see around corners."
A: "Ok. I am talking about the car now. It doesn't work the way it should."
B: "You haters always think you know better than real engineers. You don't."
A: "I know how it feels to use the car. The wipers are much worse than my Fordota Jalopy (tm) from 2010."
B: "Stop thinking you know more than Tesla about car design.....you just don't know how to drive properly....etc"