Umm physical buttons are nice and all but have you ever considered this point: fuck the blind.

(It’s actually because the touch panels are cheaper at scale than the extra parts involved plus manufacturing complexity of physical buttons. Buttons last significantly longer, are more durable, and are are more appropriate in a kitchen setting (where you may have wet/greasy fingers that won’t register correctly/at all on a capacitive touch panel) but they are more likely fail during assembly and simply cost more when you make 10,000+. Plus people love their “sleek” designs)

And that’s why your 2025 car is significantly more dangerous to drive than a 1998 ford taurus, where you could muscle memory the whole dashboard after like 2 hours of driving it. Eventually our whole world will be flat capacitive glass and require our gaze (and again, fuck the blind, I guess)