There being recalls kinda feels like it lends credence to the 'Tesla but with adults in the room' sentiment.

Consumer EVs are still an emerging technology relative to combustion vehicles, and so you're bound to be an "alpha" or "beta" tester to some degree. I would hope, however, that the attitude towards defects would be to identify them as such and recall rather than slapping a #WONTFIX on it which I feel is what I hear often from Tesla owners.