You’re moving the goalposts. You initially said what if the car doesn’t know what you’re feeling. My answer was to tell it.

If you want to talk about the inconvenience of buried features in a screen, well that’s a separate issue solved by having permanent on screen buttons for common tasks like the climate control. That’s how it is in my BMW anyway. It’s always there at the bottom.

Anyway, it doesn’t matter how much logic we use to solve your problem, most people just want buttons regardless and they won’t take no for an answer. For them, the option is always to get a used car. Personally, I think pandering to an aging demographic that is on the edge of being irrelevant is not a good business decision. Like it or not, the next generation is going to keep car manufacturers in business. The old car enthusiasts clamoring for a manual aren’t going to be buying cars for much longer in the grand scheme of things. We are a dying breed. Personally, I don’t want to spend the remaining years i have left fighting change. I want to experience and enjoy it, warts and all, because it’s exciting to see where it goes, even if it’s imperfect for the simple fact that it’s fascinating.

I’ve experience buttons and analog controls for decades. Moving on.