I'm partially with you on the heated seats thing. Or even battery range, when a 150kwh batter pack is in the vehicle but is software limited to 100. You know that part of the price of the vehicle up front has to cover those hardware costs, as they aren't going to sell the cars at a loss hoping...
I have not thought about Future Sound of London since the Paupau New Guinea days :) specifically the Monsoon Mix. Now I need to go watch Cool World
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104009/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_cool%2520world
Also fleets are risk averse, as a vehicle that has recalls or other issues will affect the whole fleet. So they tend not to buy in the first model year or two of a new design. I'd say Tesla could wait until 2025 to build out a fleet sales department for the CT.
I think this is the real key, how many people that put down a reservation earlier are in a better (or worse) financial situation than they were in at the time of putting down that reservation.
I see 2 major problems with the above. The tri-motor was at 80k before and with the other options both out already and not yet out in BEV pickups, I really doubt they could sell 300k of them at that price. Ford has already reached offering lease and loan rate incentives on the Mach-e and F150...