In general, I don’t mind driving EV cars, but man the lack of physical controls drives me nuts. I don’t know why every EV car designer just collectively agreed that physical buttons are a thing in the past and go all in that centre screen. It’s so counter intuitive. That is one major reason I went with the new Accord instead of getting an EV: the AC knobs. During night drive, the thee knobs have a ring of white light around them which make the interior look pretty cool. Also it’s super easy to control fan speed and temperature using the knobs. I’m interested in the upcoming VW ID7, but even the AIR VENTS are controlled with the screen, like WTF??? And I thought it’s dumb to open the glove box using the screen in Tesla.
People freaked out when the removed most of the physical buttons from phones. Same with the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft.
You don’t need them. You can even map those temperature and fan buttons to the scroll wheels on the steering wheel if you really need to, but in reality changing the temperature while driving a Tesla is a non-issue or really doing anything else on the touchscreen is a non-issue.