This is a win for consumers, touch screens are bloody awful when driving and take away far too much of your concentration

No one ever requested screens instead of buttons. It’s probably some BS some CEO came up with and forced the engineers to implement.

Not sure how related this is but in my field, designing industrial control systems, each seperate physical button is about $100 added to the cost over a touchscreen. We call touchscreens HMIs just to be special and sound smart. I imagine the numbers are very similar for cars but I don’t have data to back that up.