Its a cult. They have to defend the slightest perceived threat to the brand.

Which has some good engineering, but many missteps in manufacturing. When some other established manufacturer puts some real engineering effort into a vehicle, teslas many flaws will become more apparent.

When the home improvement store wood being used in manufacturing came up a few weeks ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24424567 people seemed to ignore that it's necessary and normal to spend 10s of hours disassembling your car to fix panel alignment issues upon delivery.