There's no justification for memory that will hit a wear limit in a few years to be integrated into a couple of layers of components (it's on the controller chip inside the screen control module).

If it was a relatively accessible memory card, it'd be fine for it to have a service lifetime.

I understand that. How much labor does this require relative to a similarly entrenched and costly mechanical part?

It's not just the labor, the repair is to replace the module (rather than just the memory).

They didn't initially design it to fail so quickly, a software update accelerated the wear of the card.

So there's lots of things going on.

People would similarly get pissed off if a $10 mechanical part that was embedded in a $300 mechanical part consistently failed in 3 years. Especially if the failure was due to a change in a fluid spec or something.

Yes, sorry, I meant to ask if you knew the labor to replace the entire module so I could compare it to a mechanical part of equivalent cost.

I realize there's anger but I'm trying to understand how much of a leap this is beyond a mechanical failure that people don't like, and view as an engineering failure, but nevertheless expect and endure when owning cars of a certain age and mileage.

If you don't have the information, that's okay. I'm looking for it (unsuccessfully so far.)

Apparently it's $500:

https://forums.tesla.com/discussion/177785/2016-model-x-touc...