I know everything's going towards the direction of LCD controls and they DO offer greater flexibility in terms of tweaking settings that would be difficult to put in a regular panel. BUT ...for everyday usability, the vehicles I've experienced which were heavy on LCD controls the driver needs to have their fingers right on the certain specific part of the screen in order to activate a button ....often yer finger isn't 'quite' right so you have to hunt and tap the button. On some vehicles the fan speed, for example, may inexplicably skip to a speed I didn't want and so on. In sunny conditions ya have to look more carefully to see where things are at b/c the screen can become washed out. In the Toyota cars it's a real PITA making adjustments to settings that SHOULD be easy to control. They may have the worst system. So then ya have to really look extra carefully, which, again is taking my eyes off the road (dangerous). With buttons you learn where they are, they don't move ....and can usually find and adjust the most common settings w/o looking, gloves or not. I'm always tweaking settings, radio stations, etc ...I find it a lot more difficult to do in vehicles with LCD control.
To be fair, I haven't tried the new Ram's controls. I'm glad they kept knobs/dials and buttons for common things.
