You are falling for animal industry propaganda against PETA

I made a small feature request one time and the dev was responsive and put it in the next update! it was lovely

This is just not true. Regenerative braking is much more efficient than that.

Unfortunately, you’ll probably have a hard time finding a new Bolt at this point. They’ve just stopped making them and dealerships haven’t really been able to keep any in stock for months in my neck of the woods. Apparently they will eventually come back but the timeline hasn’t been announced so probably several years.