They didn't try to claim that there is no difference between Veyron and a Prius.
They propose there is some baseline subset of functionality and value that matters, beyond which no one else but the owner should be obligated to care about.
I have to say it makes sense to me and I can't work up any sympathy for the counter argument.
If you choose to take some obnoxiously exotic delicate object out into the wild world, that should not be the rest of the worlds responsibility to protect your priceless irreplaceable paint job made from extinct dodo egg shells and door handle made from aluminum smelted from lunar rock samples.
In an interaction between those two vehicles, only one person chose to put a million dollars at risk, and one was just trying to get their groceries.