Vendors have been designing cup holders for decades. Any one of those designs would have been fine. Instead, Lucid had to re-engineer a new type of cup holder, and get the dimensions wrong.
I think this design mistake is emblematic of the poor design decisions that have plagued us so much, especially on the UI. It's hard to believe that in 2024 we still have that weird jumping-out-of-view behavior of the HomeLink buttons, the weird placement of clocks (sometimes resulting in two clocks right next to each other!), the waste of the right hand side of the main display, laggy button response, laggy door locks, etc., etc.
My "favorite" (i.e., don't like it) is that the map lights near the rear view mirror have a slow response. For some reason, some designer thought it would be cool to have the lights dim slowly instead of shutting off. The result is that you click it, it doesn't respond, and so you click it again, which makes it turn back on. The damn things are frustrating. Someone actually designed that feature. But apparently they never watched anyone try to use it. Do they really think that it is important to train the entire population on a new behavior for light buttons?
And, lest we forget, they designed that crazy thumbwheel+button on the steering wheel, the one that breaks and is very hard to use. Or the fact that the rear window shades go up if you happen to try to close an already-closed window.
I'd like to meet the design team some day. They worked pretty hard, I'm sure. But someone needs to be the one who says, "Really? Is it important we design a new way to turn off lights?"