Comments by "SHROOMY" (@shroomyesc) on "" video.

Oh no, it's not for improvement. It's cost saving because touch surfaces are largely about software so you don't have to develop individual buttons and molds etc, and then they can advertise it as "intuitive and innovative".
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Exterior is fine, interior is cheapened from previous gen and all touch is atrocious plus the downloadable DLC always online stuff is an absolute deal killer. No idea why people buy into "innovation for the sake of innovation".
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I live in a cold climate so I wear gloves while driving for half the year. Makes the whole interior essentially useless. It'd be slightly less offensive if the climate controls were in the touch screen straight up like they are in the Skoda Octavia that's based off this golf, but the sliders are awful and I can't imagine them lasting very long very accurately. But for me one of the biggest crimes is that now they've hopped on Tesla's bandwagon of charging people for DLC, effectively. Tesla's doing it with the ludicrous mode and VW group are doing it with stuff like the ambient lighting, the LEDs are capable of all the colours, but you have to buy the software for more colours.
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The VW group has already hopped on the downloadable DLC bandwagon that Tesla started so they're already charging for software that activates hardware already installed on their cars, so I honestly would not be at all surprised.
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@ragweedmakesmesneeze Oh yeah software updates are great, however the car being constantly online (and you having to pay for that) and features physically there but you having to pay for extra software is awful.
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@harrisonsloan6036 That's kind of my point, it's already installed but you have to pay to use it which while nothing new just makes the profit maximization so obvious since software doesn't cost anything to produce, only to initially develop.
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