Designers say only way to fix Tesla Cybertruck is to start over

They’re practically not the same vehicles anymore.

The Cybertruck will sell well because it’s a status symbol for its demographic.

Or do you think it's like the other kind of lucrative video game, that was made very cheaply and is continuously delivered very slowly over time, usually for free, monetizing a very small number of very strange people?

A flawed vehicle is neither of these. It is really expensive to make, and must recoup its costs over a very long period of time, where the 100,000th buyer will have all the wisdom from the previous 99,999 buyers.

The eye is quite good at spotting straight lines, so a tiny difference will be obvious immediately. On a more "normally" shaped car there are curves and sweeps and things that change radius and direction as they move down the car, and other straight things like window sills etc are broken up by door pillars etc) so it is harder for the eye to ntice when things are 2mm out front-to-back.

Using a curved panel gives you a little margin to move small problems to the top or bottom of the panel. A curve next to a curve doesn't give a strong visual cue for lateral offset, but a sharp angle next to a sharp angle does. This is also why a very slight orange peel texture in paint is not always a bad thing.

The uniqueness was a driving force in getting the concept of hybrids to be more accepted, since at the time the whole concept of any type of electric vehicle was completely foreign, and seeing these unique things on the road actually helped them to be accepted.

Time will tell whether it can do the job, assuming we ever see one. But there's no reason to think that only current trucks can ever do that job.

I.e. they technically classed as agricultural vehicles or something, so like you wouldn't expect a combine harvester to be particularly nice to pedestrians or other road users either, these large vehicles are treated the same in the eyes of the law?