Ah yes. A control with a little, densely detailed screen on that your hand totally covers when using it. This type of control is investigated by design teams at auto companies and the sensible ones rarely take it forward as, while they look cool, when used in a vehicle they are more distracting than touch screens.
This is just one of those situations where some people can ruin things for others
A significant number of people prefer something that looks cool over actual usability
Enough that car companies will put out something that looks cool even if they know usability isn’t great. They aren’t dumb, they just build what sales
Whenever we did ux research for our product, this would come up over and over. Users would always pick designs that looked cooler even when we made them bad on purpose to be sure
Just is what it is. Of course, it’s possible to build something that looks cool AND has good ux, but this is actually hard and ain’t nobody got time for that.
