The point of this whole thing is NOT that Tesla wouldn’t do a $700 fix. It’s that Tesla designed the battery pack in a fundamentally stupid way, where the entire battery pack needs to be replaced when a small plastic part breaks. This would be like (as someone else said in another comment) if Ford designed an engine…
Just waiting on the Elon fellatioers to try to justify why this car is designed in such a shit-crap way.