You don't say no to Elon. He's well known for insta-firing people that question his decisions that he's really vested into. Yoke sounds like 100% his decision - makes car look cool.

This certainly is a case of those people being vetoed. The issues with yokes are well known and even many customers would have complained

Elon had a track record of doing this at Tesla. Gullwing doors, pop out door handles, etc. But this I guess is the tax of innovating when most other power players are unwilling naysayers, some efforts are major flops.