I have 3 cars. One has carplay, and I have a Tesla... I'd a thousand times over prefer tesla's UI over carplay. It's easier to play Spotify music. The experience is a lot better. The maps are better. Those are the two things that matter most to me and it's lightyears better than car play.
To each their own. I had a Tesla Model 3 Performance. The navigation was nice because of the big screen. Spotify never worked correctly for me (couldn't even see my playlists, for whatever reason).
What Tesla doesn't do well is voice control, including text message integration. Like, in theory that exists, but the text message integration failed for me after a couple weeks and nothing I tried could make it work again.
And no other apps supported by CarPlay, either. Things like Podcasts, different flavors of navigation apps, etc. You either get what Tesla offers, or nothing. Usually nothing.
And it's not like you can't have both. Tesla fans are good at telling me why I shouldn't want CarPlay, but that's just apologizing for Tesla. Other manufacturers offer CarPlay in addition to their own infotainment. Both my non-Tesla cars even put their own app in the CarPlay interface to make it easy to navigate around.
I don't. I just do one or the other. If I'm listening to podcasts then it'll play over bluetooth and I can control it with the onscreen controls. I don't jump back and forth between podcasts and spotify
