You mean going out to check the mailbox to see if you had a recall notice, then scheduling a service appointment and losing your car for a day just to get a software update?
Or buying a $500 DVD and sticking it in your car for a couple hours to update map data?
No, I mean owning a car from an EV company that was once well ahead of its time that sent OTA notices, they appeared on the car's screen, and there was no way of knowing about it without doing that...until years later when checking the app served that purpose. Lucid started out with both ways, which makes sense, but for the overwhelming majority of vehicles out there, your scenario is still the only possibility. Nothing has changed for most cars.
The next problem was trying to figure out a rationale behind when updates were sent out and who got them. I saw it go from asking in forums like this to websites appearing where people could specify the date and time they got it, the trim level, their VIN, whether or not they had certain features, all in an attempt to try to figure out whether one group or another was more likely to get it. I don't think any of that showed any sort of pattern, but did effectively give a scatter plot showing how updates were bunched, with certain days being much heavier than others, and some just showing a trickle.
It would be nice to know how Lucid does it, but i suspect that there's no overarching philosophy that will dictate how all future updates will be distributed among users. Also. given that some updates contain various unspecified fixes, it might depend on which cars will give them the data to show that something is effective, making it impossible to come up with a general rule.
That leads me to my next question. When will I specifically get my update. Lucid, are you listening? I want it now. More generally, have people seen much activity in the past few days?