“Most” is pulling a lot of undeserved weight there.
Some recalls have been software updates. There have been plenty (like rear camera harnesses failing, the media CPU overheating, rear seatbelts being incorrectly attached, faulty MMC modules, and the incident being talked about here) that have required hardware fixes.
This is a good point. As long as Tesla continuously churns out software that breaks the car the percentage of “woops the accelerator stuck because they mixed soap with the pedal glue” issues gets smaller and thus less relevant
Some recalls have been software updates. There have been plenty (like rear camera harnesses failing, the media CPU overheating, rear seatbelts being incorrectly attached, faulty MMC modules, and the incident being talked about here) that have required hardware fixes.