FWIW, while I am in the camp if people who think this was a dumb move and who in fact cancelled my buying a Tesla over it at the last possible moment I could st

FWIW, while I am in the camp if people who think this was a dumb move and who in fact cancelled my buying a Tesla over it at the last possible moment I could still walk away from the car, I had thought Tesla wasn't just running into cost issues: they also were also quickly reacting to the semiconductor shortage and even had tons of cars sitting around missing just a few parts as they frantically tried to ship, and so maybe dropping this part wasn't as much "cutting costs" as "cutting dependencies".