Your wife is not short….she is alternately height enabled.
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Or Fun Sized.
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I quite dislike the use of replacing knobs and buttons with touch screens in both cars and audio equipment. I refuse to buy any audio equipment that depends solely on screen only based controls. PS Audio has lost me as a customer going forward for that reason primarily. I find myself car shopping for older, low mileage cars as I can’t abide the functionality or appearance of large screens that have supplanted previous controls. VW has listened to constant customer complaints and says they will shift to manual controls in future models for basic control functions like seats, fan speeds, hazard lights, & volume. Hopefully other manufacturers will follow.
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How do you feel about remotes?
I love my PWT SACD transport and DSD Mk 2–they have screens but you access the functions with buttons. But I have no issue with the touch screens on the P10 I have and the P15 I recently sold, or the DSD Mk 1 modded in my headphone only system–easy to operate and intuitively conceived.
Consider BMW, they have had buttons and switches for many functions (temp, fan speed, seats, defrost, cameras, etc.) for at least the last 15 years.
They also have 10 programmable buttons you can assign to any function you wish.
My main issue with more and more audio equipment these days is this; can the end user depend on a manufacturer to maintain repair parts for a reasonable period? Over and over, I’ve seen equipment become obsolete because repair parts are unobtainable. Also, if the manufacturer ceases operations, hardware that depends on software to operate has more vulnerablity without manual control access.
Of course there are more issues than that to consider these days. I bought Auralic products rather than Lumin because Auralic had both manual control and software based access to functions. Then Auralic goes belly-up because of worldwide economic turmoil.
I forgot to ask. How do you feel about voice control and gesture control in cars?
Well, I’ve long realized how powerless as an individual I am in the modern world, how little control I have over the things I have and want to have as far as design, function etc. If I want great sonic quality. . . in many ways these vulnerabilities are what I have to expect.
As far as amplification I’ve found reliable modern tube equipment that the builder stands behind and repairs and even improves as time goes by. That’s a win. In the world of sources. . . change keeps happening and will.
Wrong thread.
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There is something to be said for no surprises. 
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Like most technological advances these days, there are +'s & -'s. On the one hand, such innovations can be a plus for safety (keep your eyes on the road, etc.) and they can be an aid for older drivers whose manual dexterity may be waning. On the other hand, such things are a big contributor to the ever escalating un-affordability of new vehicles, decreasing reliability, & escalating insurance and repair costs. At this point in my life, I’m taking a pass on such things. I still look back on mid-60’s to early 70’s Mercedes for my personal standard of excellent interior design aesthetics so you can tell how retrograde my standards are. 
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I’m struggling to adjust the rear surround speaker volume cause the AVR and TV refuse to cooperate with the on screen display. Now I’m wishing I would have bought a Schiit Syn when tempted, even though I had no good reason at the time.