It’s fairly easy to point at things that have annoyed customers that they call features, like missing wheel stalks and poor autowipers
People buy Volskwagen, Porsche, Ford or Renault cars without thinking about the actions of the previous people attached to the manufacturer.
One difference is that a man in the high castle is running Tesla today.
(...Not that I have a lot of love and goodwill for other industrialists in the general.)
What did Renault's founder do? Hadn't heard about that.
Its director was assassinated by a far right commando also (I think the killers got out early 2000s, the story is quite interesting).
Model 3 and Model Y era had the momentum they needed and instead of focusing on expanding to other segments or offering more range of models, they decided they needed an impractical truck. They could be building bespoke 500k luxury cars with Rolls Royce or a 30k hatchback or a 40k crossover.