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Tesla has a setting "Apply Brakes When Regenerative Braking is Limited." I haven't experienced it personally, but that sounds pretty useful. It'd be great for consistency / avoiding high-speed surprises if Lucid automatically applied the friction brakes when necessary to maintain roughly the same feeling regardless of regen conditions.
The only issue I’ve found with the Tesla implementation is that it can cause you to feel that the brakes aren’t working, since you have to depress the pedal past where it’s already at. It feels very odd, but maybe you get used to it.You are still in control though. You can still use the brake as well if you need to stop faster. It just (as I understand it anyway) makes the motion of releasing the accelerator have the same expected result every time, regardless of temperature or state of charge which you might not be thinking about.
I haven't actually had any issues with it - I'm not so far removed from two-pedal driving that I don't still have the instinct to move my foot over - but it has surprised me a few times now at high speeds and low temperatures, which is enough that I'd at least try out that feature if it were implemented.