I wonder if it's less cost and more about a support angle. If they get a mere handful of customers tying up service people on "the AM radio was crystal clear o

I wonder if it's less cost and more about a support angle. If they get a mere handful of customers tying up service people on "the AM radio was crystal clear on my 1992 Camry with manual-everything, it must be my new $60k electric car being busted!" it's probably more costly than telling the software developers to deselect a build flag.