The closest experience I can relate that is analogous to driving the Tesla happened to me when I was about 15 years old.
In 1984, like every other kid growing up then, I listened to 80s music. The Sony Walkman had made it's debut, and everyone had one, and every 80s band had their cassette tapes flying off the shelves of every music store.
Then I walked into a music store one day and they had a brand new device -- a
Toshiba portable compact disc player. The salesman put some very nice headphones on me and put in the first song I ever heard from CD -- Dire Straits "Money for Nothing".
The improvement over cassette playback was so ridiculous, I couldn't believe it. All of the background hiss was gone. The impact of the percussion was palpable, even through headphones. Individual snare drum hits were delivered with clarity I had never heard before. Entire swaths of the frequency spectrum, especially in the bright mids to highs, were dancing around my head. No tape playback ever came close.
I bought it about a week later, along with 5 or 6 brand-new CDs.
I never bought a cassette player or a single cassette ever again. Every time I heard one from then on it sounded muddled and flat, like wallowing in mud. I had been ruined -- I couldn't listen to anyone else's audio system, even very nice ones.
This was exactly my experience on the Tesla test drive and first few days of ownership. I can't drive an ICE anymore.
Once you've experienced something that is so superior, it's impossible to not notice the flaws and limitations of what you were once satisfied with because you didn't know any better.