It takes 1 lead architect to make bad long term decisions and you have easily 10+ years of clusterfucks in that area, and we know infotainment was at the bottom of priorities list of conservative manufacturers for a very long time.
I have BMW 5 series F11, not the newest model but TBH given current design I am better off that way. It has tons of tiny or bigger than tiny software bugs in behavior. Seems like some sensors in the car also start to die, giving some rather crazy warnings (ie chassis integrity check when a very good car mechanic went through and didn't find any sign of damage, sometimes big collision flash on screen that is never going to happen, 10+C temperature change and I get tire pressure warnings and so on). The stuff that should be helping you ends up annoying much more and is often disabled, which is outright fail of engineering.
With that software quality, going to newer more integrated and stupidly designed (less physical buttons) version would be a step back, and I very confident they just made it shinier, not better tested. Maybe my next car will be one model earlier than our current one, the problem is with old enough cars even basic things like wires and tubes start to fail.
I have BMW 5 series F11, not the newest model but TBH given current design I am better off that way. It has tons of tiny or bigger than tiny software bugs in behavior. Seems like some sensors in the car also start to die, giving some rather crazy warnings (ie chassis integrity check when a very good car mechanic went through and didn't find any sign of damage, sometimes big collision flash on screen that is never going to happen, 10+C temperature change and I get tire pressure warnings and so on). The stuff that should be helping you ends up annoying much more and is often disabled, which is outright fail of engineering.
With that software quality, going to newer more integrated and stupidly designed (less physical buttons) version would be a step back, and I very confident they just made it shinier, not better tested. Maybe my next car will be one model earlier than our current one, the problem is with old enough cars even basic things like wires and tubes start to fail.