Hardware technology "sometimes" matters as much? Cars transported people and goods for decades with no software available. Try getting a car loaded with the world's best software out of your driveway with no drive hardware. Or try running to the grocery store in your smartphone.
When comparing Tesla software to Lucid software, one should first recognize that Tesla has been putting software in production cars more than a decade longer than Lucid.
Also, the notion that Tesla software is state of the art is both a myth and a sad comment on the state of the art. We are on our second Tesla Model S (a 2021 Plaid.) While the Plaid's software is generally more responsive than the Air's at this point (and I sorely miss the satellite maps that Tesla has but Lucid doesn't), neither our 2015 Model S P90D nor our Plaid have been without their gremlins.
We have more problems using the key fob in our Plaid than we did in our 2015 Tesla. Every few days, the car refuses to recognize the key fob to open the doors. On other occasions, the fob will open the door but not start the car. For that, we have to take a key card out of our wallets and rub it over the phone charger pad. And this problem doesn't resolve itself upon a reboot, as similar problems resolve themselves in the Air. On days when this malfunction occurs int the Tesla, it will do it all day long when getting out of the car repeatedly for errands.
We occasionally get into the Plaid and have to wait a considerable time for the car to boot up. (This happens more frequently in the Air, but it happens enough in the Tesla to be surprising.)
And Tesla still doesn't have the simulated bird's-eye view for parking that the Lucid has (and many lesser cars have had for several years).
