This is so obviously user-unfriendly. All I can guess here is that GM is hoping to slip it past potential purchasers. There is a lot of information to digest w

This is so obviously user-unfriendly. All I can guess here is that GM is hoping to slip it past potential purchasers. There is a lot of information to digest when buying a car, particularly EVs. If the salesperson says "oh yeah, you can just plug your iphone in" I can see a certain % of people assuming it has actual CarPlay support and not bothering to demo that feature. It's the kind of thing you might not notice until after you've actually brought the car home. People overwhelmingly don't want another device to manage. This is overwhelmingly true for both tech-savvy types and folks who are allergic to tech. They are comfortable with their phones and don't go anywhere without them and they would just like the info screen on their car to be a relatively dumb display device for their phones.