@mongo I guess after all that's happened it comes down to this: IMO Tesla has sufficiently lost their benefit of the doubt, so much so that I find your interpretation unrealistically optimistic. I concede it is possible it is the boy who cried wolf and this time there really was one.
But given the history, why dispute
this? Really? We have a car that is clearly stalled mid-road in an unintended fashion and Tesla chooses to fight the semantics? Even if their semantics would be right, why fight this one. It just makes them look silly.
It is the same advice wise people give to Trump. Don't fight every single thing.