Turns out physical buttons for most things is very important if you want to be able to rapidly change settings as required for capturing a moment. Whenever I tried using that camera I lost so many shots due to the delay of fiddling with menus or the startup time.
Yeah, this really feels like the “cars should have physical controls not giant tablets” argument argued from the opposite stance.
If your focus is elsewhere (driving, trying to capture a photo) the last thing you want is a giant touchscreen that’s modal and has no tactile feedback. The only way you can operate it is to take your attention away from what you’re actually trying to do to fiddle with the touchscreen.
Personally, I prefer being able to turn on my defroster or blinker from muscle memory and without taking my focus off the road just as I prefer being able to adjust the aperture or ISO from muscle memory without taking my focus off the scene I’m trying to capture.
The GP is asking for touchscreen ONLY, with no buttons for some reason.