I don't have any sense of insult about the issue, but this order/delivery scenario has been a little strange.
First, Lucid said they were not going to take reservations for the Gravity because they did not want to deal with the inevitable timeline uncertainties. Thus they were going wait and go straight to orders once production plans were in place. I think that led a lot of potential customers to assume they would at least get an idea of a delivery window once they ordered. Indeed, removing those timeline uncertainties seemed to be the whole point of drawing a distinction between a reservation and an order. As
@Blue Lectroid pointed out, when you order an Air you can also have a significant wait. That's true . . . but you nevertheless get a delivery date estimate.
Then, to further muddy the water, Lucid opened orders with a lot of unanswered questions: Why no Touring version and why a year wait for it? What would be the differences in the Touring and the Grand Touring, so that people could know whether they wanted to wait that year? (Remember that a lot of potential Gravity buyers have said they're dealing with lease expiration dates.) Why EPA range on only one configuration? Why and how long the delay on one of the colors that had already been on the show circuit for a year?
As someone who sat out a years-long wait with a reservation for an early Air and someone who ordered a Gravity as soon as orders opened, I have to admit I share the perplexity of some who cannot find the distinction Lucid attempted to draw between reserving a Gravity and ordering a Gravity.
Granted, this Gravity situation is playing out over a shorter timeline, but seeing pieces of the Gravity puzzle only drop into place since orders were opened (with some pieces yet to drop, such as the Touring setup) is very much like what happened during the reservation period for the Air.
