I saw the writing on the wall when Tesla actively worked against people attempting to repair their vehicles. They wouldn’t sell parts for a long time.

They made it into a walled garden. If you owned an EV, you fit into one of two categories: Tesla owners, and everyone else.

IMO, they thought that since they were the only game in town for a while, and have been the largest player in the EV space, they can do whatever they want. Over time, that has not worked out in their favor.

Every product they have must be tracked and traced to a user account. There’s no way to own/operate a Tesla without an account… Mostly. And because of this, I’ve been heard saying that, I like the technology and on average, the vehicles Tesla makes, but I don’t like the company, or their business practices, so I would probably never own one.

The only practical way to get by is to hack the software in the vehicle, and to me, that really shouldn’t be necessary. But it is. They’re worse than John Deere in my books.

I’m any case, I generally don’t support vandalism, especially when it’s in the realm of “destruction of property”. The people who bought the cars could be victims all the same, so I don’t want to presume that someone has the means to just throw out a $100k+ vehicle because the owner of the company that made it is a tosser.

No. I more feel sympathy for those folks. They didn’t ask for this. They’re not necessarily guilty of anything simply because they own/drive a Tesla.