Yeah there's definitely been some aggregious recall issues, but the problem is the stats include minor things that only required a quick OTA, so it skews the numbers awkwardly and means we can't properly judge the real problems they had

If they separated the numbers, we might see that either Tesla has very few real recalls, Tesla actually does have a lot of real recalls but also happens to have software ones, or it's about normal

And without separating all we can do is guess

steering wheels come off

Plus they have enough room for mother-in-law. Elon has no good car ideas

But the software updates are the majority of the recalls here.

Hasn’t happened as of yet.

What if a legacy manufacturer doesn’t install a corrective part appropriately and exacerbates the issue?

It's an AMAZING benefit. You get in your car in the morning and it says stuff like "we've improved the ability of your auto dimming headlights to detect oncoming traffic", or "we've added a setting to automatically turn on your headlights when your windshield wipers are on", or "we've added an ability to move the blindspot camera window".

A traditional car never "improves". If your windshield wiper rain detector sucks, well too bad. Maybe when you buy another car in 10 years it'll be better. Where in cars with OTA updates, they are constantly improved. Like I said, it's an amazing benefit and I would imagine most other car companies are looking to adopt this model.