Let me just state that Elon musk has , in fact mentioned going zero on subsidies before the 200k , namely, qhen bob lutz was critizizing the subsidies and loans tesla got, he offered a competition where everybod would go to zero subsidies.
There were 325k model 3 preorders in April 2016.
Tesla has been in business since 2003. Show me a comment from 10 years ago of musk complaining about subsidies.