I understand why so many people hate Tesla, but they aren't allowed to drive fully automated without a human monitoring them, so not the same situation.
Otherwise... not so much.
Which would make the driver responsible not the the company for incidents especially ones which explicitly circumvented controls.
The scenario with cruize is different because the company is responsible for everything
It may have been true at the time, but now Tesla uses the interior camera to make sure you are paying attention to the road.
If you don’t want to use the FSD beta, you don’t have to activate the camera, or you can put tape over it. With either of these actions the user can opt out but will not have the ability to use the beta.
The FSD Beta uses the in-cabin camera's to do eye tracking and all the other attention stuff.
Two points:
Try using Cruise outside its tiny comfort zones.
There is no such thing as the “self driving Tesla” you mention. There is a beta which requires human supervision at all times.