I would suggest exercising caution in using that article as a guide post. The car the author is inspecting is literally the model Tesla chose to put on the showroom floor in front of customers and the general public. I'm sure they ensured it had no major flaws.
how so? Details are horrible. Gaps and misalignments everywhere
The article starts with pictures from the preproduction trucks with awful gaps. Later down the page they have pictures from production trucks without awful gaps.