No it doesn’t. Flick your finger and it’s colder. Stop your narrative…

I do need to control it depending if it’s sunny or cloudy. Otherwise it is perfect.

It hasn't been that easy in any car ive used. Maybe yours is different, but it is far from average.

Mine bottoms out at 65, but sometimes I'm hot and want it colder than whatever it thinks 65 is. It's pretty frustrating. Then it turns on the recirculate, which is not what I wanted. I don't understand why. Maybe the manual says

It turns on recirculation since you want it cold. There is only so much cooling the airco pump can do and pushing in hot outside air does not cool it further. If you want it cold it needs to get cooler air to do so and that is the air previously cooled. What you want is a bigger heat exchanger and pump. Invest in that if you want cooler air.

Modern cars? My Honda did this in the 90s. It's a thermostat. The technology has existed for over a century.

> People don't feel hot or cold based just on ambient temperature

This is well known, and it is why sun-load sensors have been commonplace in cars for decades.

Automotive engineering is quite mature.