But once you're making EVs, they seem a lot more reliable, which let's people go for style and function more than just pure reliability numbers.
My Tesla seems to have a lot of creaks and rattles since <5k miles in, which they describe as 'normal'.
The problem is they wanted to cost cut so they put the CVTs in car models with too much torque from the engine.
And if you go by that rule basically every faulty transmission would be excused. Chevy truck 4l60e transmissions suck too... Ohh if they were just paired with smaller lighter trucks with a V6 they'd have been fine!
But they weren't. And that's the failure of the engineering teams that chose them.