This is why choice is good in the market. What’s dangerous and distracting for you may be comfortable for me. Funny also that you mentioned connected devices as well. Recently a physical button died on my washer and I was able to still use it through home assistant integration while I waited for service.

There is no choice, everything's moving to digital because it's cheaper.

Tesla literally changed their entire UX and UI from one day to the other confusing my in-law for weeks.

What used to be standard icons on all cars on analog knobs and buttons are now stylized bs all different from car to car. Every car I need to learn its own menus and try to find where are things hidden, as someone who has to lease cars often I truly hate it.

Your washer example is comedy because it either confirms that it's yet another digital crap for something like this to happen. Never had good washers/fridges or whatever had their physical buttons or knobs break bar a stove one in 37 years of my life because of an accident, and fixing it was few euros without the need of service.