@MPawelek Sir you have an incredible car collection! Absolutely LOVE those classic aesthetics.
But respectfully, calling the lucid an "inferior product" because it has software issues is a matter of opinion rather than fact. This inferior product recently won the shootout at FOS against all other production vehicles - and it was 100% stock, completely unmodified. This inferior product does a 0-60 in 2.5-3 s, has industry-leading range, has incredible engineering and battery tech, has an innovative interior design that maximizes space, and is designed to be incredibly aerodynamic without completely sacrificing exterior aesthetics. These are all simple facts and are all essentially industry-leading standards. Bearing those things in mind, the price point may become more understandable.
My personal opinion of the daily drivability of the AGT is that it's stellar - and yes, I'm taking into account all the software quirks that I have personally experienced. It's tempting to recall a few examples of when the door handles didn't present themselves in less than 1 second and I felt like an idiot standing around not knowing how to get into my car, but then I realize that for every one time that happened, there have probably been 100 flawless entries. Yes, unlocking a car should have a 100% success rate and not a 99% success rate. That being said, I've never NOT been able to unlock the car eventually so in that sense it HAS been 100% successful. The same reasoning can be applied to almost every other software quirk that I've encountered.
Tire blowouts, component failures, true mechanical problems - agree that does suck. And if it turns out that an objective analysis of lucid reveals a significantly higher rate of such failures compared to the industry norm, then that would certainly be a concern to me. But the lack of CarPlay, the absence of Highway assist, the fact that I have to push 1 or 2 extra buttons to close the garage door if I insist on using the Homelink implementation, the 17+ seconds it takes to boot up or whatever, etc - these are first world problems, and in my opinion do not weigh nearly as much as the actual engineering and technology that went into the vehicle as a whole. Put in another way, I would be happier paying top dollar for something that I know is best in class in many objective parameters as opposed to paying top dollar for something that has no truly distinguishing feature but does have mundane software implementations that every civic, sonata, and leaf already have.
As a final anecdote, I recently drove the AGT from San Diego to Vancouver, a trip that took about 2 days at 10-12 hours of driving per day. It went nearly flawlessly. Even the much-maligned unreliability of the EA network turned out to not be an issue. But the most enduring memory of that trip was how utterly comfortable I was at every stage, no matter how long I was driving, or how hot it was outside, or how fast or slow I was going, or how twisty or straight the roads were. I took out my rubber motortrend mats, put the stock carpet back in, turned on ACC, played music, set climate control to auto, took my shoes off, kicked back and relaxed the entire way through. From time to time, I would enjoy a light chair massage. Did I for one second care about suboptimal Homelink implementation, slow boot time, etc etc? Nope. Did my tires explode, my car catch on fire, buttons fall off my dash, steering column deafen me with intolerable creaking noises, get boiled alive since the heat management and climate control is clearly worse than a horse-drawn buggy? Nope.