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I may be the last person in the world at my net worth level who does not have a smart phone but I won't bore you with my idiosycratic less-is-often-more rationale. Suffice it to say a $20 flip phone on the Verizon network at a hundred bucks a year works for me. My wife has an iPhone and iPad, I know how they work, and if there's any "tech support" it falls to me. Now, I have my wife's old iPad which I rarely use. I'm planing to covert a library of CDs up to the iPad's capacity to just leave in the vehicle since my 6-CD changer is now history, which makes me think of a question for elsewhere.Carplay/Android Auto are worlds better than the standard system. Navigation, Ease of Use, Music, Voice Commands, all superior to the factory infotainment. That's probably why they're offering it as standard now.
From my perspective, once I figure out how stuff works and get the settings where I want them, which I'm most of the way through after two weeks, 98% of the driving enterprise for me is unlock, start up, un-mute NPR (or switch to iPad when the time comes), set the climate control, back out, drive, park, lock, rinse and repeat. Consequently, I don't anticipate using the touch screen much at all. Now, if there are new vehicle functions (like a louder turn signal setting, lol, to name one) that just happened to come along in a new screen config, that might matter to me but not something I'm going to trade for.