You are exactly right on the
You are exactly right on the growing pains causing problems. The issue now is that those growing pains weakened Subaru's customer pool a bit, then Toyota came in and said we need their decent tech. If this continues Toyota being the bigger company and run by idiots is going to kill off Subaru. Subaru wants to make EV and hybrid cars which is nice, but for some reason they think they need Toyota to do it. WRONG. Subaru could develop that technology just fine on their own. Their sales have shot up at an exponential rate over the last 1 or 2 decades, they could easily afford to make their own EV and hybrid tech. So whoever is at the top of Subaru and decided this merge was good needs fired immediately, before Toyota manages to ruin Subaru.