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The upside of a touchscreen is that you can make the buttons disappear if they go out of context.

The point is that those "essential functions" never go out of context.

It's easy to end up with something like this though:

What's wrong with that? The optimal UI for anything remotely complex arguably includes both physical and touchscreen controls.

Who decides the context?

Random know-it-alls on the internet obviously.