One is definitely way worse than the other though.
The flush handles on a model 3 are annoying in ice but the situations in which you desperately need into a car seem less likely than the situations where you need out but can't find the stupid pull tab that's hidden under plastic.
At this point he's just a geriatric sundowner. The one thing you can be confident about is that he will repeat whatever bullshit was fed to him last. I guarantee you the ghouls around him most definitely mean what they say. They are just laundering their bullshit through him.