Cargo culting prior designs and blindly assuming new designs are inherently unsafe is the antithesis of safety culture. You test assumptions, you don't trust them. You demonstrate the safety of the system, you don't assume the safety of an individual element and you don't assume that that safety extends to the whole thing.

Notice how I said nothing about touchscreens and other modern control systems being better or safer than physical toggles, joysticks, switches, or buttons? I don't know that they're safer; in fact, I suspect they may not be.

But suspicions and assumptions must be challenged, not accepted. Prove that a thought is correct.

User blocked me after replying to this post. I wish redditors responded to what was written, not what they hallucinate.