Do recognize that most of the people "panning" these things aren't the target market anyway. The cars remain sold out for six months. Tesla seems to be doing fine, gimmicks or no. They don't hit with every swing, but they're batting well enough.
And while I don't know that I would have chosen one personally, I've watched the videos and... is this really so bad? It looks fine. As a reasonably new Tesla driver, compared to getting used to the "single pedal driving" paradigm this seems like no big deal to me.
I do get a sense though that Tesla suffers from chasing down too many gimmicky ideas: giant central consoles, their weird HVAC tech, gullwing doors, Cybertruck, some really bad manufacturing concepts.
Like I said, they don't hit it out of the park on every swing, but they're still the best slugger in the game. And frankly it isn't even close.
[1] Which despite what all the haters say is still trivially the most capable autonomy system available to the consumer anywhere, with no competitors even close. Yeah, yeah, type all you want but this thing is fun as hell and I was happy to pay $10k to be part of the original generation of these things.
While I admire Tesla's commitment to bucking constraints, I am reminded of that Choose Boring Technology presentation: http://boringtechnology.club/.