This angers me as a consumer of automobiles. I abhor poor automobile design and this takes the cake. This is also why I hate
a) air conditioning and radio controls that do not have clear positions for their status, forcing me, the person driving a big automobile in traffic, to divert my gaze to inspect them to ensure I have the correct setting
b) Tesla's monolith faceless screen which forces me to stare at it constantly, taking my eyes off the road when I drive one
On the flipside of that, my LEAF has a big button in the middle called "Auto". Hit that, and it's usually what I want (or damn close enough) if I'm at a time when I can't glance at them.
Front defog is the only thing that I might need to look at in any kind of a time-sensitive fashion. In my experience, setting defog on any other car is harder than mashing the two buttons the are on in that area (defog and rear defog).
I agree that if I want to manually set AC compressor on/off, fan speed 0-7, face, face/feet, feet, feet/windshield, windshield-only, that it's harder on the LEAF. Most times, I don't want that. I want either "defog" or "I'm a little uncomfortable; please make me more comfortable".
Tesla also has a monostable shifter. I've found myself in a different state than I thought I was in on more than one occasion. It's remarkably easy to bump it and trigger a shift out of park.
a) air conditioning and radio controls that do not have clear positions for their status, forcing me, the person driving a big automobile in traffic, to divert my gaze to inspect them to ensure I have the correct setting
b) Tesla's monolith faceless screen which forces me to stare at it constantly, taking my eyes off the road when I drive one