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Originally Posted by heavyD^2
Screens are cheap. As you said Subaru has a big tablet screen and they are not a brand I look to for luxury. All this does is blur the lines between luxury and mainstream offerings from the Japanese and domestics. All auto interiors are going to have big tablets and bright led ambient lighting that distract from that actual luxury touches. This glowing LDC interior has all the ambience of tacky discotheque setting for teenagers obsessed with having a smartphone in their face 24/7.
It's like the big grilles. All automakers are going in that direction and as you can see from this forum there's a lot of detest for it. If you accept that automakers are going this direction because people love this interior then you also have to accept that people love big grilles.
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Don't think I agree with the comparison to big grilles. IIRC, big grille is a design trend that started with the "Singleframe" design of the Audi A8 back in 2004. Circa 17+ years later and this trend is soon likely going the way of the dodo bird because EV's don't even need grilles. Even with ICE cars you don't need large grilles so it was for design not function or practicality.
Large screens, however, is design following function. Besides the practically of a larger navigation, more tech are being incorporated requiring more buttons/switches but instead they put it on the screen and, if you do that, then why not also put existing buttons on the screen, and so on. So to handle all that, you either have a large screen like the new S & C Class, or many smaller screens like the RS7. If you don't do that then you end up with way too many buttons like some Porsche used to have but now they are going towards larger screens too to rid the buttons.
So one is an old and soon to be dated design trend and the other is not necessarily a trend but more of a design necessity.