> Maybe if you aren’t paying attention to the car industry you’ll disagree with me but the problem here is the Model S and X are positively ancient with about zero dollars spent on keeping them updated and they’ve become completely irrelevant to the market as a result.

In practice they essentially got replaced with the Model 3 and Y, which didn't exist when the models being discontinued first came out.

It's because of the decline in battery prices. When the Model S came out, an electric car with that range had to be that price. Now it's overpriced for what it is so they'd either need to design one which is significantly more premium while still selling into an inherently lower volume market segment, or lower the price to reflect the current battery costs and then have it be too close to the Model 3.

What they really need to do is continue to move down, i.e. release a subcompact with less range than the Model 3 but on the cheap.

Or build a truck people actually want.