All these forums are big circlejerk parties where everyone upvotes positive comments.
If you read through the tesla forums it is enlightening because it's full of people who actually care about the products and whether they are good or not.
You see plenty of detractors on there and it is welcome because it provides a different view. Then you find people who actually care about the tech in the cars, battery degradation, best charging practices, etc.
It's also important to not be ignorant about what others have because it shows what is possible.
Good example of this is how on every forum people talk about more sensors, more compute, etc. leads to better driving and surpassing tesla in record time when there is zero evidence of this. There's a reason mercedes drive pilot has not release their P2P system in the U.S. this year. There's a reason that the chinese systems have a safety level of FSD 12. There's a reason that tesla increased memory bandwidth of AI5 to have 4-5x what is found in nvidia thor.
There was a guy on that tesla forum who used to talk about how FSD had no moat and that all these systems from nvidia, wayve, chinese, etc. were on the same level. It became increasingly clear they are nowhere close and "mr. always right" basically left the forum.
What also became clear over the past year is that tesla's penny pinching and using the least possible cameras to cover the largest FOV possible has a side benefit in that it allows them to use very low memory bandwidth and have very fast reaction times.
