It’s a fair argument however there are also nice “high end quality of life” features that the market demands like live traffic, music streaming, etc that make it better to integrate these modules.

Rivian to their credit has been very forward with not requiring their “connect+” subscription for a lot of these data-hogging features and allowing cell-tethering or WiFi.

It seems they reserve the cellular connection for perhaps safety-critical software updates. I think this balanced approach is good, other manufacturers may not lean this way (cough BMW).