Let's be clear about one thing. I have only ever spoke in defense of Tesla and some of its products. I have never once defended or praised Musk himself.
The overall point that I was raising about the Consumer Reports article above is that it compares the quality the first 5-10 years of product from a start-up bringing a new technology to market with established technologies made by traditional manufacturers, many with 100+ years of experience in delivering vehicles. Can you compare them? Yes, you can. Can you really draw any meaningful information about the long-term reliability of Tesla's crop of vehicles from the past five years? That's debatable.
I can look at 5-10 year old data from Toyota, Ford, and BMW and be relatively confident that the pattern will hold for the next decade. You can't really do the same with the data from 5-10 year-old Teslas. 5-10 year old data for Tesla is from it's earliest days of being the first to market with viable consumer BEVs. It's anomalous data due to the life-cycle stage of Tesla as a manufacturing company and BEVs as a technology.