If they have custromer feedback and focus groups like they mention how did it happen in the first place? Some overoptimistic head-of-something? Really curious. I own previous -2021 mb and had to drive the upgrade (touch buttons) once as a replacement car. UX is terrible. Period. I even checked then in the dealership what they did to S-class and mybachs - and yes, same crappy wheel, etc. Anyways, I was mostly surprised that they didn’t know this before. Something is wrong with their research / decision making.
Can it be also related to demand not catching up or even declining? If place is in high demand and prices go down shouldn't it cause even more people coming to it (compensating for a possible price change). (Note: not an expert on this, I'm just curious how it really works - besides obvious thing: more supply -> price goes down).
Seems to be a duplicate with this Show HN authors made: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290617 . Let's please merge this if someone from the moderators team can do that. Thanks!
Probably people at some point were making same arguments about ASM and C. How many people though do ASM these days? Not arguing that for now it is relevant point, obviously Rust / C are way faster.