Only twice in seven years did voice control not work for me. I can't recall the last time bmw didn't have touchscreen in a car but it predates 2014

I haven't had many, so I do have a touch screen. But I've tried the rotary input on a rental 2 series that had a dial but no touch screen, and I had to use the GPS.

They have touchscreens now, so you can input text with an on-screen keyboard but do everything else with the controller.

Sure. That what I meant balanced.

Yeah, agreed on a rotary dial being terrible for text input. That's where a touch screen shines. But you shouldn't need to do anything requiring text input while driving.

I barely used the dial while driving, except for track selection. There are lot of different knobs in old models)