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> I look forward to the factory in Texas coming out to solve that because Fremont is not going to cut it.

How does a factory being in Texas change build quality in a Tesla run environment? (Legitimate question, I know very little about this)

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New tooling, new technology and the ability to design it all out from scratch. The Fremont factory was a retrofit of a Toyota factory iirc. It also has been the workhorse for most Tesla cars so it's hard to do any extended updates to it while they didnt have other factories to pick up slack.

Not that I expect the Austin factory to solve all their fit and finish issues, but I am delaying my Model Y purchase till it comes online.

One possibility: they have said on several occasions that it’s very difficult to change how a factory is working when it’s working flat out. And of course, with the huge pressure on Tesla to deliver the numbers, they can’t afford to slow down or have outages for days or weeks while they change the production line.

As a result, meaningful changes or innovations seem to be limited to the design/opening of new factories.

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