

This sounds like a junior dev thing. “Why can’t we just rebuild it from scratch?” comes from a place of complete ignorance and lack of experience.
They’re going to realize that the last 1% of work is going to take 99% of the time, and Musk (Mr. Dunning-Kruger himself) is going to quickly find himself knee deep in shit.
I guarantee that if they release it at whatever deadline they set, it’s going to be a flaming dumpster fire. MMW.
It’s cosmetic damage only. Car still works. Tesla owners are, right now, driving around a symbol of modern day fascism. People warned them about it for months that this is happening.
Does it suck for the people who own one and have no other vehicle they can drive instead? Yeah. I feel bad for them. But it’s unfortunately a necessary evil…because it’s working.
It’s collapsing the Tesla stock price. Teslas are becoming difficult and expensive to insure. It’s becoming risky to even own one or drive it around. It’s making Trump and Musk extremely uncomfortable, to the point that Musk made Trump promote his company on the White House lawn. It’s been one of the best American protests that we’ve had in a long time, and it only inconveniences one group of important people - current/potential Tesla car/stock owners.
Musk, and billionaires in general, need to understand that when you try to take away the rights of Americans, we will fuck your business over. We will make sure that you can’t sell your product, and that owning your product is risky, expensive, and not worth the price.