I'll admit I got a little testy today with my DA. There's a little more to the story, and since you're a bit newer to the forum, I'll retell it (trusting the old hands will just skip reading it again).
A friend, also in Florida, reserved his Dream 15 months after I did and confirmed his order several days after I did. He ordered a configuration identical to mine, including the Infinite Black on which I had earlier decided. He got his car a month ago.
However, on my fourth visit to the Miami Design Studio I was given a heads up that Lucid might add Zenith Red to the color choices. I was on the fence about switching from black, but some friends who were with me really liked the red (based on the color blocks, as the demo car was Quantum Gray), and lobbied hard for me to get red if it became available. I had met Zak Edson, Lucid's head of Retail Operations at the Miami opening some months earlier, and had asked him why Dream buyers had fewer color selections than buyers of other trims. He explained that the time, complexity, and cost of switching colors on a paint line would make the early production logistics of the Dream Edition too complicated for the narrow production window planned for the limited Dream Edition run. Consequently, they were limiting color choices. So, when Zenith Red was added at the last minute, I was suspicious that it might have some effect on place in production queue.
Having lived through multiple product delays (when I reserved in 2018 Lucid was saying production would start late in 2019), I was suspicious that Lucid might not get all the Dreams out the door by year end, particularly as supply logistics were breaking down across industries worldwide. That, coupled with what Edson had said about the complications of adding colors, is why I focused explicitly on the effect of color choice when I finalized my configuration with the DA. However, once assured that place in production queue was based solely on the date and time of confirming the order with my DA and that switching to red would not change my place in production queue, i went with red.
I might have chosen red, anyway, and taken the risk of losing the tax credit with my eyes open. However, I do not like making decisions in the absence of information that is deliberately withheld (if not by my DA, then by the production team who did not apprise the DA's of the effect of color choice on production). If the DA did not know the answer to my question, the right move would have been to say, "I'm not sure" or "let me check and get back to you". What I got, instead, was an unqualified assurance that color had no effect on production timing.