No, it very much depends on the application, what you're trying to do. Different tools for different jobs. Don't conflate.
yeah, who could ever need accurate and immediate depth perception, having to carry a 4090 in my roomba to badly reconstruct it from 4 pictures so it can stop bumping into walls is like the future man
LiDAR in drones is not necessarily the "stereo vision" application you are thinking of, it can also be something as simple as a LiDAR altimeter.
Lidar can be many things, but isn’t the point to continue to iterate on LiDAR and make it better than what it is today?
Well, Elon thought that too and we still haven't seen any robotaxi
The current version of FSD drives better than most humans. You literally put in the destination address, press Start Self Drive, and it gets to your destination without you ever touching the steering wheel, and parks for you in the end. IMO it's ready for large scale robotaxi deployment. I only take steering wheel if I want to take a different route or park in a different place vs where Tesla decides to park.
Since last month they are operational in multiple states now.