You can play with words however you like, but the fact is going from 20kw charging to anything less is called crippling the charging power. An hour + of extra waiting is kind of a big deal. I don't have dual chargers, so it doesn't matter to me, but the choice would be nice for those who need the fastest charging possible. I don't know too many companies that go backwards in technology development.....
I believe it is you who are stretching the reasonable use of the terms involved. A "crippling" change means something that dramatically and seriously limits functionality: a human who cannot walk, for example. The Model S comes standard with a 40A charger, and the Model X has been upgraded to a 72A charger... that's almost double the charging rate, for
every single car produced. The car has improved, giving you faster charging while (mostly) saving you the $2,500 (IIRC) twin-charger upgrade. Win-win IMHO.
The fact that there was an optional configuration available, at a significant extra cost, that enabled 80A charging on Model S means that the
standard config on Model X comes within 10% of the optional/enhanced charging capacity of Model S... but you recover $2,500 (IIRC). If Model X is $5,000 more than a similarly configured (i.e. single-charger) Model S, but you get almost all of the benefit of the dual charger without having to pay for it, that means the real value difference just got cut in half, because Tesla gave each Model X owner an extra 32A of charging capacity at no extra cost.
Nowhere in this is there a "crippling" loss. Yes, a Model X will charge 10% slower than a twin-charger Model S... which very few people have. No, that's not "an hour + of extra waiting", it's 30 minutes
at worst. And if you don't have dual chargers, and it doesn't matter to you, then why exactly do you feel compelled to state subjectively that this is "kind of a big deal" when you have no idea whether it's a big deal to others or not, and it can't be a big deal to you at all since it doesn't affect you?
