Well you're talking about UX and the article is mostly about UI (touches on the experience here and there). Arguing that the pictures themselves look amateurish

Well you're talking about UX and the article is mostly about UI (touches on the experience here and there). Arguing that the pictures themselves look amateurish. In Europe most pumps are a lot simpler and the only screen is the segment LCD giving you the price and liters. Sometimes you'll have a couple of buttons on the pump like "30E", "50E". You'd press one and then do exactly what you described with the difference that the pump stops at the preset mount. Other unattended pumps will ask you to put the card in, authorize a payment, the fill up and they will charge based on that authorization and all this using the regular ATM style keypad unit with a tiny LCD (the kind you'd see at any parking, or automatic ticket dispenser). They are all very straight forward in their usage even when you don't understand a word from the written instructions. Very simple UI that's shared across industries to make sure people have some familiarity. With the downside that the UI looks very '90s, should anyone see that as a problem (Jalopnik probably would).