Even since they made autopilot standard, I still find this whole payment structure hard to swallow. I would understand the idea of end of life support or even a

Even since they made autopilot standard, I still find this whole payment structure hard to swallow. I would understand the idea of end of life support or even a monthly subscription because I wholly embrace the idea of more maintainable code and features in cars. It’s not realistic to expect all of that for free in an as of yet imperfect technology. At a bare minimum, the infrastructure needs to be managed and maintained. This is a bit idealistic, but it may hopefully even lead to better industry standardization in the future. With that in mind, the whole lump-sum pay structure just feels grubby. What if I buy the car, pay for the features, decide I don’t like it and sell it in a short period of time? Granted, it’s likely a poor financial decision on my part, but I’m left with no way to recoup that part of my investment. Rather than being a depreciating asset, it’s not an asset at all. Worse still, tweaks to refund policies are likely to be unsatisfactory. I already said I’m willing to pay something, but the choices I’m provided are to either demand an refund, the process of which feels like wasting everyone’s time involved, or make an arbitrary donation of capital to Tesla, Inc. Meanwhile, the terms continue to change for new buyers and aren’t evenly applied to old or used buyers. Just do the math for me, let me sign up and be done with it. Software is soft, water is wet, etc. If they don’t get this in check, the old guard could eat their lunch like people keep predicting.