I know why they did it. I still don’t like it (and our next car won’t be a Tesla) and its an annoying case of “new technology” (to save costs or whatever reason) that is worse than the “old technology” but sold as “better” because AI blah blah

The problem is Tesla is a quasi-premium brand, so killing features for cost which cause annoyance is a terrible look.

But also frankly I somewhat question what this could possibly be saving them: their model range is very limited.