Ungrateful consumers not liking their innovative finger print opening door handles! And the touch screens! Oh the touch screens! Who doesn't like the touch screens! What did people touch before?

And you need subscriptions for basic features now. They haven’t suffered enough yet to listen to customers again.

You're in minority. Most people are buying shit Chinese cars instead. Those have even more electronics and silly features but quality is dubious and it's all full of bugs. I drove couple of rental cars like this. They have things like speed sign recognition that fails all the time and sounds a warning sound constantly while you drive below speed limit, turn signals that don't make any sound, automatic lights that sometimes work, some shit screen sharing apps instead of android auto. But they are cheap (you can buy the fully equipped version with led light and scented AC for the price of mid range European car) so people buy them. If European companies start making basic, repairable cars without tracking they will sell a car to you and me and that's it. Most people will still buy Chinese shit. Oh, and while EU car makers push to soften the 2035 gas engine ban China is flooding the market with cheap electric cars. German car makers are desperately trying to maintain their advantage in a dying market. I'm sure this will turn out great for them...

As a German, yeah.

The EU is planning on ditching those targets.