I enjoy tech where it is a considerable improvement over the "non tech" version. But I despise tech that's just there because it's "cool" but doesn't add any considerable value, or actually makes the experience worse.

Case in point, auto windshield wipers. I live in a place that gets a lot of "misty rain", and the wipers don't turn on in this situation until it's well too late, so I have to turn them on manually in any case. The options for my wipers are only "auto high" and "auto low" and "manual high" and "manual low", but there is no intermittent setting, which is what I want half the time.

I basically don't understand the problem auto wipers are trying to solve in the first place. Who forgets to turn on their wipers if they can't see out their windshield? Is the tiniest tap to turn on the wipers really a burden that needs to be solved, never mind that I'm tapping that button way more with my auto-wipers than I ever did in older cars with normal intermittent wipers.