The skeptical side of me thinks that car manufacturers are simply preparing us slowly to accept screens in the car so that the next generation accepts it by default.
I recently switched to a car which is the outgoing generation of that particular model and (almost ironically) has a physical button on the dashboard to simply stow the screen away. One cannot even tell that there could be a screen there !
There still is a screen in the instrument clsuter but it's monochromatic and I have set it up to display the speed and a "sub-readout screen ?" to display fuel consumption. The instrument cluster screen is also capable of showing GPS direction instructions as well if the main screen is stowed away.
Everything else has a physical switch. The HVAC status is dispayed on it's dedicated LCD on the center console.
I like the outdated tech in my "new" car.