What has Tesla changed? All it did was show a market for non-garbage electric cars. Other more established companies are running laps around it now. How much of that $25B went to the ever-retreating promises of self-driving?
When was the last time they had a new model? I’m seeing a virtual Cambrian explosion of non-Tesla EVs in the South Bay in just the last year. Bolt and Leaf are the entry level models that make EV accessible. Tesla is still way out of reach for most people, serving a niche audience, and now merging their brand identity in many peoples minds with the toxic soup that is Twitter.
I’m all in on EV, but Tesla blew it by failing to focus on the Bolt and Leaf market. And their SWEs are now apparently spending their time solving twitters HR problems.
Not a Tesla fanboy, but it seems you're dismissing many of Tesla's accomplishments here. Unless @Kye is the username secretly used by Jeff Bezos (hi Jeff!), I'd recommend you weigh how difficult it is to build something similar to Tesla.