I remember at the time it was a refreshing change from all the stuffy corporate nonsense.

As with so many, their weaknesses are also what made them stand out initially.

Oh, I just mean it was super funny once I realized. Not that it was an actual issue. The actual issues are more like the car uploading all camera footage to a private cloud, sending analytics and telemetry that I wouldn't want to share and being trivially remotely controllable, brickable and crashable

Same. Calling them that stood out positively, like the gull wings and the party mode; unfortunately, the same mind for that then gave us the Cybertruck and the not-legally-a-department DOGE.