That so much extra crap to work around a design choice that doesn’t really bring anything beneficial to the situation. These issues are basically unheard of on most other vehicles. Meanwhile there’s an article seemingly every few months about more people dying in Tesla’s because the doors wouldn’t open.
You need to look up ‘impact detection/sensing door locks’ which is a safety feature that unlocks the doors in the event of a crash. So no, most modern cars exterior handles are not useless after a crash. For the few areas Tesla is ahead of other manufacturers, they are behind in many others. Tesla has been losing ground every year.
I don’t particularly hate Tesla. I even looked at buying one years ago. The reason I didn’t was because they have new manufacturer issues and logistics problems. Due to their CEO, I have no interest in them at all anymore.
When I was looking their build quality was atrocious. They were also impossible to get in my state as they don’t allow self owned dealerships. Which is all Tesla was doing then. So you had to leave the state to buy one, bring it back, register it, and then pay sales tax.
It’s not that other manufacturers are better or don’t have issues. They’ve just been around longer and have already had and corrected a bunch of the minor issues that Tesla is still dealing with.