It's not the perspective, it's actually like that. The drive mode "island" is a sort of "peak" where "N" is a regular button, and all of "D"/"P"/"R" lean away

It's not the perspective, it's actually like that. The drive mode "island" is a sort of "peak" where "N" is a regular button, and all of "D"/"P"/"R" lean away from the "peak" when pressed instead of going straight down. So the "R" button has a lip you press right next to that storage compartment. That makes it easy to press by accident as you bump it with the edge of e.g. a can of soda you're putting into that compartment. If you had to press it straight down and it was surrounded by plastic you'd at least need something as small as the button (or smaller) to press it accidentally, but no such luck.