Many people these days don't seem to be able to acknowledge facts. I feel like this wasn't as much of a problem ~15 years ago, and has all but become its own pandemic in the past 5 years... but what do I know.
The P85D does not produce 691 HP. (Neither does the P85DL, for that matter.) This is a well established, independently verifiable fact. This has nothing to do with how "happy" you are with the performance, or any other subjective metric. Horsepower is a well-defined unit, and can be measured definitively multiple different ways.
You get decent quarter mile times? Good for you! You know what though? They'd be even better if the car didn't taper torque at ~400-450 HP and actually had 691 HP as advertised. Maybe we need some kind of "new math" to show that Tesla's 691 HP number is still valid and "prove" this doesn't matter, though. Until then... well, we're here in the real world.
I thought this particular case was pretty well settled that Tesla mislead people, including multiple legal settlements along those lines.
If you publish a specification, and then your product can't meet (or even come close to) that specification under any circumstances... then well, you're in the wrong for publishing that specification. Just because other published specifications are somewhat accurate doesn't excuse the blatantly misleading ones.
Coming along almost a year later to
try and explain away the misleading spec doesn't solve the issue either... just a bunch of hand waving and non-solutions, just like the people who still try to say this isn't an issue. JB (author of the linked post) wrote this, and would know perfectly well that this was misleading (torque vs HP). If the spec was valid, why did it need clarification (an asterisk, if you will) in the first place?
On the bright side, it
appears Tesla has learned from this very specific mistake at some point, as modern vehicles seem to meet such specs that are independently verifiable. (Unfortunately that's just shifted their published shadiness to other areas... but those are stories for other threads and other times).
None of this excuses the fact that they mislead people in first place. Period.