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There are still few models of Japanese cars in Japan that can be ordered without infotainment. It'll come with a warning sticker to not poke your fingers. Those are intended for customers not satisfied with selections of stock infotainment upgrades - there are multiple choices of poverty specs to luxury infotainment units for the same model, in the first place.

IMO, one of contributing factors to ongoing touchscreen apocalypse is "off the lot" model of American car purchasing, which penalizes custom configurations, which in turn eases development of customer hostile integrated infotainment.

If manufacturers can't expect cars to retain stock, standard, integrated infotainment for the life of the car, some of the features can't be implemented by the infotainment team, but must be handled by chassis team to be offloaded to a separate computer. It can happen.