Automakers haven't cared about the people who actually drive their cars for a decade or more unless you're in the ultra-premium segment where they make the fatt

Automakers haven't cared about the people who actually drive their cars for a decade or more unless you're in the ultra-premium segment where they make the fattest margins. They keep shoving shit we don't want down our throats because it makes them more profit and they'll keep doing it as long as we keep buying their increasingly enshitified products. Automakers could sell millions upon millions of barebones, basic, user-repairable, high MPG cars for under $30K USD if they bothered to listen to what regular folks actually want, instead they almost exclusively now make and sell $60K+ cars full of touch screens, pointless features and subscription services because they, like almost every other company on earth has decided they'd rather make $25K in profit per car selling a heck of a lot fewer $100K cars than make $5K in profit per car selling a heck of a lot more $30K cars.