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... "When the trend of the Piano Black and the switchless interior was happening, it was during a time when designers and companies and engineers and everybody were thinking that, Hey, we can just get rid of all these switches on the interior. We can put it all in the software. It'll save money. It'll save us tooling up all these extra parts for unique cars and all this stuff and make the interior more like a software experience.' And it was done with those intentions," said Hiren Patel, senior design manager at Nissan.

That resulted in cars with minimalist interiors that looked good in the dealership. But people drive their cars on roads; they don't just sit inside them, parked inside a dealership. "So lots of people were complaining about it and saying, Hey, it takes my eyes off the road to change the temperature or to adjust my seat or do whatever.' It's not as easy as doing something on your phone where it's just right at your fingertips and intuitive," Patel said. ...

Most recently, Patel was responsible for the new Rogue, Nissan's bestselling family SUV. And its interior is a good one. Less minimalist than the all-electric Ariya, the new Rogue Hybrid has buttons and switches for most of its controls and a useful amount of storage built into the interior. ...

@#2 ... If I get rid of this car before it's paid off, the failed attempt at replacing buttons with a screen will be why. ...

I have a car in which the dashboard has mechanical gauges (tach, speedometer, gas, etc.) and the controls are all push-buttons and knobs.

I have no plans to get a new car unless/until the whole entertainment-center-as-a-dashboard thing is in the rear view mirror.