Having just bought FSD in mid June when I took delivery, I don't care if we ever get full autonomous driving. As anpan aside, it confuses me that people still conflate FSD with true autonomous driving even though Tesla explicitly doesn't advertise FSD this way. The level 2 driver assistance features are better than what other manufacturers are offering and are well worth the $7k. I thought they were worth around $5K before I bought them, but I've revised my estimate upward since playing around with it for a while. People complaining about FSD not allowing them to sleep in their car or handle edge cases like toll booths remind me of the Louis CK sketch where someone immediately complains about inflight WiFi not working perfectly IMMEDIATELY after it's invented.
Limited versions of competitor level 2 systems that often barely match free autopilot are $1,500-$2,500. Often these require buying higher technology packages on the car to even enable the option. Cadillac SuperCruise costs $2,500 on top of a $3,500 option, and has a more limited feature set and is geofenced to certain areas (with no realistic promise of meaningful OTA updates). Based on all the data points we have, FSD appears to be priced fairly with the competition. I personally think they made a pricing mistake by making base Autopilot free. I think a $3k charge for autopilot and $5-6k for FSD would have been smarter, but I'm happy to get Autopilot included.
My biggest gripe with FSD is simply the name. People buy it and expect a hands free autonomous car. It's not that and it might never be that. I'm okay with that, but I can understand people's frustration if they either didn't understand what they were buying or if they got their car before in 2018 when Tesla was promising full autonomy