Pretty big hill if you ask me

The EU hears you.

https://etsc.eu/cars-will-need-buttons-not-just-touchscreens-to-get-a-5-star-euro-ncap-safety-rating/

Agree with this. With cars it makes them vulnerable to hacking unless safety critical systems are isolated. Fly-by-wire airplanes specifically isolate the flight control computers from anything that could connect to the internet for this reason

Though as a kind of "exception", I think that charging poles for electric cars should have modbus or Ethernet and a local protocol (matter maybe?) to use with smart home systems for automation and cars should have a standard affordable way to check errors and status of sensors.

I fucking love my wifi enabled heat pump. Turn that shit on half an hour before I get home. Comfy shit.

touch screens can be justified IMO, IF the company let it function as a diagnostic computer but the auto industry seem terrified of actually making something resembling a competent configurable UI. Internet could be nice if the appliance just used SNMP or similar protocols that have been around for decades, but the companies seem to love that shitty malware they call an App.