Ironically it’s powerful cars that can probably get away with fewer speeds without having as much of an efficiency hit.

Delinquency rates on EVs are basically the lowest in the industry https://www.experian.com/content/dam/noindex/na/us/automotive/finance-trends/2023/2023-q2-state-auto-finance-market.pdf (page 44)

Remember there was a time period when phone screens were much smaller, and most web interfaces didn’t easily adapt to narrower resolutions at the time. The usability was genuinely terrible.

Nowadays it’s acceptable, but unfortunately that didn’t really become the case until people migrated to Facebook, Reddit, etc