Why is this even a feature? My wife just bought a VW (which shares a lot of compenentry and design talent with Audi) and it is (IMHO) full of over-thought UI "

Why is this even a feature? My wife just bought a VW (which shares a lot of compenentry and design talent with Audi) and it is (IMHO) full of over-thought UI "features" like this that just make the car mysterious to use. A lot of the software UI in particular is just execrable. A ton of fun to drive, though. Wouldn't it make more sense to just... I think it would make even more sense to not build so much soon-to-be-obsolete electronic gear into a car that may (mechanically speaking) be viable transportation for decades. But I guess car makers, like the makers of anything, are more interested in features that help the cars sell rather than features that make the cars easy to live with.