I really want to agree with you — and I do to some extent, but I’ll counter with what made the iPhone:
It did a cell phone absolutely right.
- Visual Voicemail; Full internet browser; Music player; Fluid, Threaded SMS conversations; Contacts that looked like contacts ...
For every phone use case, the iPhone delivered a sense of “Finally!”
The Tesla experience had that aura to me when they pitched the battery swap technology — that’s when you said, “holy hell, they nailed it”
However that was dropped, and all other releases have felt lumpy and pumpy. The only thing I believe we all truly love is the acceleration... and really, that wasn’t a “product first” choice, just an attribute of the electric technology.
I really want Tesla to be successful — they just don’t know who they are.