For context: I drove ~200mi down I-5 on Wednesday. ~175mi of that was on Autopilot - for those of you unfamiliar, lots of I-5 is basically flat and straight, but it's not an airstrip. Any time I didn't put positive pressure on the wheel for more than a short bit, the car alerted me to do so. If I had ignored that enough, the Autopilot would have turned off, and not been available for the remainder of that journey. When I've got it engaged, I keep a hand on the wheel and my foot in the same position I would for a "normal" cruise control. Like any new tech, when I first started using it, I was incredibly cautious: foot on accelerator, almost-steering "just in case," etc. Over time, I've put enough miles on it to recognize that it's not perfect by any means, but it definitely keeps me more centered in a lane than I would normally, especially on long stretches.
The number of hoops you have to jump through to defeat the systems is pretty high, but there are always going to be people who go to those lengths - especially with social media, where it becomes a weird flex to show yourself doing things "while the car drives itself." That being said, acting like Autopilot (or other assisted-driving modes) are suddenly going to lead to people looking at their phone while driving is hilarious - I see people staring at their phones while pulling up to / away from stop lights every day, in every make and model of car. That ship has already sailed.
Part of the issue is people's piecemeal knowledge of what the cars can and can't do, or basic features - this thread, where people are thinking that Teslas don't have weight sensors in the seats (of course they do), or the other week, where someone legit thought that you might not be able to drive one through a car wash "because it's electric."
