I think the, maybe contrarian, argument for this is that while a lot of the previously physical controls are now obnoxious to find there are a lot of features i

I think the, maybe contrarian, argument for this is that while a lot of the previously physical controls are now obnoxious to find there are a lot of features involving music, phone and maps that if they weren't on the dash people would be go ahead and just be using their arguably more dangerous phone to control. There needs to be both dashboard screens and physical controls and knobs, if done right it would even look more "sleek" than the pure touch screen dash displays they're producing now.