You're both right, but CV is a bit righter.
This may have been the proper way to report it from the beginning, but whether or not it had been proper then, it is highly improper to switch reporting methods in the middle of the pandemic.
Imagine you're speeding along at 70 miles/hr and your digital speedometer suddenly shows 113 kilometers/hr. Wait... what? Am I speeding? Sure, you can take out your calculator and do the conversion, but the middle of a highway isn't the place for that.
I'm trying to come up with an alternative reason for the change, other than the attempt to make it appear that hospitalizations and deaths are decreasing. Whether for DeSantis's political campaign or to for economic reasons, to encourage tourism.
Your analogy is off, for a very important reason: the speedometer is giving you realtime data, but the deaths counts are giving you old (and mostly useless) data.
I agree that changing how data is presented in the middle of pandemic is generally ill-advised, and can even have catastrophic effects. However, there is no data in the death counts which will change anything for anyone, other than the media. It doesn't tell us anything about the trajectory of the virus that we haven't already learned from testing data (case count, positivity rate) or from hospitalization data (patient count, ICU admissions, length of stay).
Can you explain how a daily count of deaths is helpful, when the total number includes deaths from the previous 4 months, with most of them between 2-4 weeks old?
The "why" is obviously political, as are the complaints about the switch. Ultimately, the new way is more accurate and the proper way to do it. If there are no real-life consequences to changing the way we report the data, can we really complain that they are doing the right thing because it's politically expedient for them?