alt Hacker NewsIt's a good argument except the basic controls needed for a car haven't changed in decades: We all need the same climate controls, media controls, etc.
For deep car settings, those have been screen controls for over a decade now and that makes sense.
Automakers are constantly doing functionality-neutral tweaks. There's fashion in how cars looks, and they want every year's model to feel new. Climate control is constant, but one generation has a knob, the next has a slider, the next adds an extra zone, the next changes fan speed from two buttons to a single "up-down" button and so on.