I think it was only free for a limited time when you buy the car, they might have changed it since then though.

Even Toyota is doing this now. They locked features like the digital tire pressure gauge behind a paywall on their app.

Damn I don’t think I’ve seen an orly owl in like 15 years. Completely forgot about this meme.

I don’t think UX will be that big of a problem, in the past the unofficial reddit apps were all better than the official one. Major companies design by committee and the UX is meant too maximize profit and engagement statistics for advertising, rather than be “good”. A lot of open source UIs are better than their paid counterparts. I think PopOS is far nicer than windows 11.