[jamesfmilne]

Agreed, I bought a 2017 VW Golf recently, it has wired Apple CarPlay.

Bought a dongle for £55, works fine.

Love having a car with a steering wheel with real buttons, and climate controls with real knobs.

It feels like around 2018 is the zenith of Human Machine Interface in cars and it's all been downhill since, as they cram everything in a fucking touchscreen.

[calfuris]

It seems to be on the upswing, at least for some manufacturers. I went from a 2017 CRV to a new one recently and they replaced the touch-based steering wheel volume adjuster with a physical wheel and moved the only thing that I ever wanted to use the touchscreen for while driving (HVAC mode control) to a physical button. The only controls that are stuck on the touchscreen are ones that a reasonable person would never want to try to change while driving.