No sure why this is becoming a GM swan song. Give them another look? We have been looking at them for decades and still looking at them now. We don’t like what we see.
Here is a company that admits to having built substandard cars. Substandard cars are made by substandard companies. Most intelligent folk don’t fall for the ‘buy American’ hype. Toyota, Honda, and other ‘foreign’ cars are built in America. It is some of the domestic stuff that comes from factories oversees.
When new cars are extremely expensive it makes sense to investigate thoroughly what you are paying for. You can take the crap out of crappy cars but crap remains in crappy companies. Given a cholce with no economic advantage in either decision, I would rather do business with a company that had a good reputation.