Please explain a non-touch design that allows all following functions: bluetooth pairing, equalizer adjustment, controlling volume of parking sensors, displaying oil levels, tire pressure, breaks wear, and other nice sensors your modern car is equipped with. How about adjusting the heat level of the seat heating? How about disabling mirror auto-adjustment when you shift into reverse?
A modern car needs a touch screen.
It also desperately needs hardware buttons for core features, e.g. volume, AC, lighting.
All these things can be performed with a turning knob, a touch screen is not mandatory in a car
I have a flashlight with like 120 functions and ONE button. You’re fully correct. We do not need touchscreens for everything.
My Honda from the transition years has a nice big screen that is touch-capable, but it also has a nice knob in the middle that can spin to scroll through lists, but also rocks up/down/left/right and pushes in for select. When I describe it in text it sounds complicated but it’s really quite intuitive and can be used without looking for all the basics.
Most of the things you listed can - and have - been done with physical controls at one point or another. It was nice, because you could do it by feel and memory after you got used to your car.
The modern perception of “car” is so, so different from the one I grew up with, and I’m not that old - I learned to drive in the early naughties
