Luckily for you, Lucid had all the perfect hardware for your vehicle that worked perfectly with your version of software yet they haven't made enough of them to make your theory pass muster.
I wanted to say that I share your experience about the car and the forum.
I had my Gravity for a month, after waiting 10 months since placing the order.
By ordering early I volunteered to be an early adopter, accepting that it won't be perfect, but hoping that I won't be an Alpha tester since Lucid had a year to figure out basic stuff with their employees driving first batches of Gravity production.
I also have 30 years career in technology, last 15 in embedded software, microcontrollers, system development and integration. I truly and deeply understand what is involved in making this product, both in human and technological aspects.
With that in mind, the best word I can find to describe my current Gravity software experience is
grotesque (defined as odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre. Synonyms: wild, antic, weird, deformed, distorted).
Every day I drive the car I am stunned, baffled, taken aback (add all other synonyms here) by the reality of the software state in a vehicle released for mass production.
What really amazes me is not one or a few specific issues, which I could appreciate to be difficult to pinpoint and fix.
For example, key fob issue, while embarassing and inconvenient, is not part of my grotesque experience. I know how to quickly reset and recover, so I can live with it until PaaK is ready.
It is the fact that dozens and dozens of simple and basic UI elements and functions are so grotesquely out of whack that I simply cannot imagine there is a single QC team member at Lucid with sign off authority for public release. In my professional experience this looks like something developed and immediately released by a team of interns, it is so unbelievably terrible.
Any basic QC test program would immediately invalidate this hot mess from public release.
Adding insult to the injury are people on the forum swearing they don't experience these issues even though our cars are virtually identical and running the same software to the minor release version. I must assume these people are honest, which only leads me to conclude that my specific car is defective in some way that is manifesting in grotesque software behavior. But my decades of experience tell me this is not plausible, or at least very unlikely, hence my baffled position.
I'm dropping it off at SC next week for essentially a factory reset since DreamDrive has never activated on it, updating the fob, and generally expecting some sort of miracle that would make it more usable other than a rolling sled.
I plan to write up a more detailed forum post about my experiences since it's my duty as an Alpha tester to report back to Lucid. Clearly they lack the paid staff to do this work, so we have to help them make this a better product.
Sorry for my rambling...