I'll be a contrarian and say I DON'T want YouTube, Netflix, or a web browser in the car. They have enough to deal with getting the rest of the software working properly as well as the testing and maintenance burden. There are only so many good engineers. Plus, browsers can be memory hogs - websites will only get more complex during the useful life of the car, and it won't be long before the browser is a really crappy experience. (
Even Elon doesn't like the Tesla web browser.)
I say just bring an iPad along if you want a larger screen to play with while charging.
I agree with you fully, but I get why people want these things. If Lucid were to add any of this, I would not be mad. I just think they have much better things to do.
Even in my Tesla, where entertainment features make more sense due to the horizontal screen, the browser experience was so terrible I only ended up using it once or twice for emergencies. It's like a Linux browser from the early 2000s. It's no Chrome or Safari, by any means. Sites load slow. A lot of sites don't work (because no one is testing their web sites in a car). And so on.
YouTube was so hard to log into I didn't bother for the first few months. And then again, the connection in the car is not fast enough to stream anywhere near as fast as I can get from my phone, which I'm always carrying with me, anyway. And the app was lackluster, to say the least.
The Netflix app was even worse than their TV apps, which aren't great to begin with. Again, probably because it's low priority for the team at Netflix.
To me, if you're going to add a feature, do it right, or don't do it. Tesla has a ton of "features" that look good on a spreadsheet but fall flat in practice. I'm much happier waiting for Lucid to build great apps, not just apps for the sake of apps.