Not disputing your point at all. Nor your edge 
Despite what that article suggests, the sharp edges were a visual design decision; not one driven by materials selection. There is nothing preventing curving a 1.4mm sheet to provide a 3.2 mm (or larger) surface radius. Except the (lack of) will to do so.
Me, too, except I still haven’t seen a CT in the wild yet. A bunch of people in my complex have the sedans, though. And I live in L.A. – you’d think there’d be a ton of them around here.
I’m eagerly awaiting your report of your first witnessing of a CT v. CT crash.
That might take awhile. Hell, I don’t think I’ve witnessed a Camry v. Camry accident yet.
I saw one on the road the other day, for the first time. In a real life context, they look ridiculous, like someone slipped a low-poly-count 1990s 3D model into a modern video game.
I have absolutely no doubt he doesn’t care about pedestrians, bicyclists, nor a great many other people and things. 
Had one in the cul-de-sac yesterday, presumably lost (for some reason we get a fair number of vehicles that drive in and then right back out).
I didn’t find it any more attractive in the wild than in photographs. It did appear to not have headlights, although that was probably a function of how sunlight was hitting the front.
They don’t exactly have headlights in the conventional sense of the word. See here:
If that hot-link image doesn’t display for you, see this post in a thread on another messageboard: Cybertruck FULL FRONT VIEW! (2/9/23) | Tesla Cybertruck Forum.
Finally saw one in-the-wild today (14th St./Williams Bridge, DC). Unwrapped and showing signs of less than meticulous finish protection.
The panel angles was what most struck me as looking somehow “wrong”. I suppose just not used to something so sharply nakedly angular-edged on the road — commercial box trucks usually have moldings/caps/flashing along the edges that are all at right angles, and most other vehicles when the bodywork changes direction it’s a sheet metal bend not a cutting edge seam.
And yeah, the minimized lights also are a bit puzzling at first, you don’t really see where they are until they are actually lit up.
My experience is there is an ICE VW with it but other than that, if you see a white LED ‘bar’ across the entire front of the car it’s an EV. It’s like the photos I’ve seen of a bunch of girls at a concert; they all got dressed separately but they’re all wearing exactly the same thing.
Weird coincidence yesterday.
I was talking with a relative who just came into town. The Cybertruck came up. Due to their job, the relative is out and about a lot and has seen several of them. I hadn’t.
Shortly after leaving to go home we saw one. Our first ever. It’s almost like the phone listening to what you say and you start seeing ads for products you mentioned. Only it’s the actual item.
Opinion on looks: It’s a cross between a C-level high school metal shop student’s year end project and something from a 1950s low budget, lower than a B-movie, prop.
They’re now common enough around here that at least for me, they’re almooost just another background vehicle in the general traffic. More distinctive than a Ford work van, but less distinctive than an ordinary dumptruck.
Corvettes are a dime a dozen around here. As a car guy I still notice them. I guess CTs are now about like that.
FYI, here’s a review from James May :-
Finally!
I saw one when we were driving home from the market this morning. No special wrapping. First impression? It was smaller than I expected. I didn’t see any actual dirt on it, but it looked dirty. Old and corroded. Since we are just a block from the beach, I wondered if this CT owner also lived near the beach. Sea air (moisture and salt) does a number on every kind of metallic surface.
I’ve never talked about the CT with her, but her only comments were: “It’s ugly” and “it’s dumb looking.”
My wife has zero idea that I’ve even discussed Cybertrucks, but describes the neighbor’s car as "silly looking ".
It could be that it’s just ambient iron oxide collecting on the surface. That was the case for the claims of “rusting” earlier in the thread. It wasn’t rusting, but it was rust on the surface. And it’s more visible with light-colored surfaces (happens on cars with white paint, also). Sometimes called “rail dust”.
Could easily be. It looked bad, though. Like a hobo car!
One weird thing about them is the rear taillights are also in a straight line/bar. I thought the middle high mounted brake light was supposed to be mounted higher than the others.
Just has to be >=34 inches:
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-V/part-571/subpart-B/section-571.108
I find it kinda funny that most reviews are something like “ok, it’s weird-looking, but it’s a technical masterpiece so I’ll forgive them for that”. But May has almost nothing to say about the technical aside from it being pretty much like any other Tesla, and seems to like it simply for what it is. He just wants a smaller one!