My parents have a couple of newer Outbacks. My father, who's rather technical and pays close attention to these things, had commented repeatedly that he likes how Subaru appears to be more conservative in deploying new technology, but what they do deploy seems to be functionally solid and correct. (His opinion; YMMV.)

Also, they still provide physical knobs and switches for the important things; that includes climate controls and, I believe, the stereo.

I'm driving an 11 year old Forester and just as happy not to be dealing with all this crap quite yet. And the various satellite connectivity options on it have been left never activated.