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That's the state of vehicles these days. I bought the Subaru I'm driving now because my 2005 Saturn was getting harder and harder to maintain. (And because I wanted more than 1,000 cubic centimeters of cargo space. (Yes, I'm being hyperbolic, but yeah.))
Subaru is hardly the worst offender on privacy. I don't know that I could have gotten a less "smart" car without getting an older vehicle, and the one I was selling was harder to maintain specifically because it was old.
I think the best we can hope for is hackable devices. Being able to just remove the DCM fuse is "hackable" in my book. I got a robot vacuum cleaner, but I got the model that's best for running Valetudo. I got a smartphone with an unlocked bootloader so I could run LineageOS. I didn't get a Nintendo Switch until the Fusee Gilee vulnerability was discovered. I didn't really shop around for a "hackable" car before I bought this Subaru. But I'm satisfied with the "just unplug the DCM fuse" solution.