They're cars like any other. Some problems and some good shit. At the end of the day they built a car with a reliable powertrain and made it perform well and they still are the most efficient with range. You can see the thought they put into making it good at being an electric car. They also understand the need of a reliable charging network.

On the flip side they have poor build quality are not very reliable overall. Their reliance on touch screen is a matter of preference. I think they go overboard with it and would prefer more hard control, but atleast the software is intuitive and responsive.

Elon is an asshat, but Tesla, as a car company, I wouldn't call rubbish. Their cars have pros and cons, like any other, and one must admit that they have done quite a lot to move the industry towards electrification.

Elon in engineering is good but he is shit at socialising/ethics

Other car companies aren't hyping up their cars as the greatest thing since sliced bread and sending out half baked, unreliable features. For other car manufacturers a recall is mundane, there's been thousands recalls for decades before, there'll be plenty mote recalls for as long as we drive cars. Hell, Volkswagen made national headlines when people found out they were cheating on emissions tests.

As for Tesla, we've been on the cusp of autonomous self driving cars for like a decade and a half, always next year, it's almost done, I swear. And our hyped up bulletproof N64 looking truck broke on stage, and our Autopilot (which doesn't actually work how most people imagine how an autopilot works) is totally fine as long as you're closely monitoring it. It doesn't surprise me that regulating bodies are exercising more scrutiny on Tesla than the manufacturers that have been around for a century.

I mean, okay, but...

Or one catches fire and makes national news, vs all the other cars that caught fire in the same timeframe that go unreported because it's not the new thing.