I agree with everything else you said except your first sentence. Saying that Tesla is a car company isn't untrue and there's no reason for you to have such a v

I agree with everything else you said except your first sentence. Saying that Tesla is a car company isn't untrue and there's no reason for you to have such a visceral reaction to it. Tesla has made no indication that they'd ever license their self-driving or sensor tech to others. Pretty much every other project Tesla has suggested is vaporware. The one and only thing they'll successfully produce and launch, possibly in our lifetimes, is cars. And yes, the car part of their company is not important to them, but it's what they're making, and it's what we're buying. It's also the weakest part of their company. Despite their production numbers being relatively low, the QC issues and service issues are pretty noticeable. They absolutely need to fix them to reach the average customer, which they'll need to. To reach full potential of their current stock values, they can't just rely on tech savvy individuals looking to overlook QC issues. It's like saying "Apple isn't a phone company, it's a services company." Even though that might be true in a sense in terms of their revenue, the iPhone is the lynch pin of their business. If they fucked up iCloud and Apple TV+ and the App Store, it'd suck, but the company would survive. If they majorly fuck up the next iPhone? Probabaly not.