My wish is an auto manufacturer makes an EV without a bunch of whiz-bang features. Entire dashboards don't need to be touch screens - analog speedometers, tachometers and other gauges are fine. Put the detailed battery meter stuff in the infotainment menus but have a simple gauge in a normal dashboard. A simple 6-8 inch touch screen for Carplay/Auto interface in the middle gets the job done.
What would be really cool is a retro looking car (1950's style) with electric motors, modern suspension, brakes and safety features but a retro looking dash and a hidden/flip panel for the infotainment touchscreen.
I bet that our lives are largely spared at this time only through the competence of the automobile QA discipline.
... On top of that, I think there is a bit of a generational gap between firmware engineers. I have worked with several firmware engineers who were artists at optimizing single threaded superloops and miracle workers at squeezing in yet another feature and become tech leads, only to find they have an infinite blank canvas. Some don't actually have the wisdom to not use the new freedom to paint themselves into a corner. A lot of the old projects are trivial now, but dealing with bureaucratic application-level protocols in firmware without getting requires a set of skills and tricks that don't often translate well from what Cloud/App developers are doing.
Does the number get worse or better if you include Tesla?
Looks like Tesla is only 33% worse than the industry average.
