I am also in agreement. I want the car to be as mechanical as possible. The ideal phone-car integration for me is a 3.5mm aux jack that lives in the glove box somewhere. I am the kind of driver that will not look at their phone in the car, even at a stop light. Everyone who knows me knows that if I am driving, they should not expect any sort of response from me until I have parked safely. It's sad this has become an exceptional and even controversial stance.

Even the electronic safety nannies that are exclusively part of the car get in my way sometimes. I will intentionally disable stabilitrak and traction control on my car every time I start it up, unless the weather is bad. I also feel safer and more in control if I can feel the road through the steering wheel and don't have things like fly-by-wire keeping me isolated from the physical reality unfolding around me.

I've heard lots of complaints regarding things like lane keep assist being too aggressive and making steering non-intuitive or annoying. Good luck disabling that on a 2019 model year vehicle. Everyone wants to be so goddamn comfortable and disengaged while they are driving their 4000lb death machines around. I really don't get it anymore. What are our priorities?