Apple devices and stores look clean and elegant to me.
Tesla vehicles feel and look simple and beautiful to me.
If given a choice, I'd rather live in new buildings with bright, light-filled interiors than in old buildings with darker, mustier interiors.
I could provide more examples of things I don't think are ugly. The main point is this:
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
As you say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder—but, seriously, the Cybertruck as a thing of beauty? (This is from someone who actually liked the boxy car designs of old.)
Is it different? Yes. But ugly? Not in my view.
Have you seen it in person?
I have not. I can't imagine it improving that much in person, but who knows? Anyway, whether I think it's ugly, in person or from afar, is not the issue; I was surprised that someone found it beautiful (which is different from just not being ugly), but I certainly don't mean to argue the point.
It’s interesting, unique, strange and therefore beautiful.
I do. I was checking to see whether my parent really meant to include Cybertrucks among things of beauty. I didn't say that they were wrong—I think I made my point of view implicitly clear, but also said, in a reply https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39081204 to cs702's reply https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39080900, that my opinion was of no relevance to whether they found it beautiful.
Or maybe you mean, why even go so far as to ask the question?—but, well, this is a discussion board, the topic under discussion is specifically whether everything is ugly, and Teslas were advanced contra that thesis, so it seemed relevant!
I for sure find the cybertruck prettier than 99% of cars on the roads anyway. The SUVs are especially ugly imo.
Tesla vehicles look fairly bland, dry and devoid of emotion to me.
There are things that objectively make something more beautiful. Symmetry for example. Not all beauty is in the eye of the beholder.