Don't disagree. Their direction as of late is confusing and seems pretty muddled. But that's what happens when you have a sigma male at the forfront, who kneejerks their directions around like a toddler with ADD. They need to throw the morons and their board full of grifters overboard, and get back to it. There's pretty clearly some smart people in that company, that is if they are still there, and probably not likely at this point.
Even before all of this, with that pay package. WTAF?
Apparently there's quite the revolt brewing for their AGM. They probably can't remove him before hand, because they need to turf the board here as well. It's been a long time since we've seen something like this, arguably if even ever? It's happened with lots of companies in the past, but not with one this high profile. At least that I can think of.
They are going down the toilet, because they are distracted. Look, they were the most reliable EV, and they were at the forefront of the EV revolution. They built the most robust and reliable charging network (one of the key reasons we went with Tesla over Hyundai or other options), and flipped the automotive retail marketplace on their head.
But they also unfortunately have their hard work and progress overshadowed by a complete narcissistic manchild of a CEO. Who somehow controls the company with only 17% of shares held, who has a corrupt and compromised board on his side that will cater to his every little whims. A CEO who gets distracted, first with this Cybertruck nonsense, then X, then SpaceX, who then derails all innovation and future development with everyone focused on this autopilot distraction, and now all this. If I was a shareholder, I'd be furious. As a customer, I'm not sure I can rely on them anymore (could I ever?), so my future purchasing decisions will be made with that in mind.
It's nice of you to assume that everyone is as rich as all these virtue signalling celebrities. Yes musk is a piece of shit, no I'm not buying another one until they torpedo his ass, yes autopilot is a scam. But I also happen to like the car, it suits our lifestyle the best, it has a five star safety rating and I'm not a Nazi just because I bought a certain kind of car a couple of years ago. Do what you want to the dealers, go after the corporate people, but leave the innocent consumers alone. None of us asked for this shit either.
So I had a 2070 in mine, and updated last year to a 4070ti. I'm not going to lie to you here, the difference hasn't been earth shattering. I mean it's obviously better, but if you are gaming in 1080p, you should still be good for a bit yet. Games are released so horrendously optimized anymore, it doesn't matter if you have your own personal nuclear power plant powering a video card the size of Texas, it's still going to suck.
That's just it though. The top managers who make these decisions will probably be fine, half of them are probably at their desk this morning. It's always everyone else that has to pay the price for their management missteps.
You'd think after 30+ years of this shit, they'd realize they are fighting a losing battle. Actually, you'd think they'd also figure out that they should stop being rapey and molesting everyone too, but alas here we are...
I fell for it last gen. Once I was done shoehorning (and I mean shoehorning) an oversized power supply, a video card that's the size of a bus terminal, and all those stupid splitter cables, I swore any further purchases off.
Everything is just way too expensive, the gains are marginal, and it's a lot of fuss all to just largely play re-rereleases of games that are 30+ years old, and other horribly optimized games that will take 2 years to sort out and in the meantime the computer you are using is irrelevant because it's just going to run like shit no matter what. The hardware itself is questionably optimized too.
I'm running this setup into the ground and when it comes to gaming, I'm a console guy going forward.
You could have a video card the size of a nuclear power plant, and it's still going to struggle with this unoptimized POS. Rockstar sucks at optimizing their games for PC, and it's kind of inexcusable at this point (most of their games are a decade+ old at this point). RDR2 was the only large exception, but it still struggles here and there. They especially seem to struggle with grass textures. Case in point, watch GTA 5, it's fine in the city. You'll be chugging along, 180FPS or whatever, but the minute you leave the city your frames drop to like <30 FPS in spots, unless you really turn the detail down.
It's borderline unusable at this point. No one serious uses it.