Lucid probably makes that choice super easy, since you'll be working with familiar faces.
The early employees are likely the best to create a new electric car company, since they were the foundation of the current industry leader.
Ex-Tesla employees have flocked to a variety of EV startups (Faraday Future, Elio, Lucid, Rivian, etc.) with varying levels of success for a while now. It's kind of like an incubator for EV engineers.
Great point that Tesla is an EV innovation incubator. High praise.
But when you look at it, they're building another Model S.
Having the option to build something you liked is better than being forced to use what is already used 'because it exists'.
Not always the best decision, but usually the kind of thought process one goes though.
For sure, there are many struggles that continue for Tesla, but I'm not sure that a new startup building cars from scratch is a way out of that. It looks like jumping out of the pot and into an inferno to me.
But the sorts of people doing this seem to be the ones that might enjoy the challenge involved.
After all, they're going to need a visionary...
Not necessarily. Sometimes you have a well defined problem and your advantage is in better execution.