Funny - that's exactly how I perceive my M3: boring. And I love it (3y driving it).
If you get the feeling it's hyped, stop believing the media (esp. about Elon) and rent it for a week, or a weekend's long trip.
Most of the stuff you setup once and you forget it exists, because the car was designed to stay out of your way. I have done 0 maintenance in 3y, except for tire rotations.
Most "OMG I NEED A BUTTON" things are either reachable via voice control (usually good enough if you ask me), or you may have already AP engaged and you can do it via touchscreen in <3s. Climate control is usually good at keeping a good temperature w.r.t. to the outside, so it's mostly a +- 0.5°C quick-tap when it feels to warm or too cold (and the up/down controls are always present on-screen).
Integrated navigation w/ Supercharger network is so amazing, it's boring. I can hop in the car for a 2000km unplanned trip, and the car will make sure I get there by planning all charging stops, preconditioning the battery for fast charging, and you can also add intermediate destinations to plan more complex trips.
The first time I checked out my parents new cars (my father owns VW ID.4, my mother a Peugeot e-208) it felt like the Enterprise's deck, with buttons popping out everywhere, and you usually need a phone to have modern/up to date navigation support in addition.
Updates are usually about rolling out new (mostly opt-in) features, or bugfixes, or sometimes improving quality of life considerably (latest was "auto blinkers", last month).
Sometimes they are required to improve or fix critical battery/powertrain/driving management issues.
When they decide to shuffle stuff in the UI without appeal, that sucks, agreed, but it's usually for the better and it's generally an easy transition - in a couple days I usually forget I had a different UI.
I can tell you for sure I'd rather have any time a 30m update installation overnight every couple weeks, than fiddling 3 days preparing a 64GB USB stick in the right format for the car to consume, only for it to fail multiple times. Or bringing in the car for service a couple days just to allow perform a "recall" that could have been only virtual. Or dealing with Bad Software Practices® anyway, like releasing v3.4 but calling it "v3.3 (rev 2205)" in the dashboard (all parents experiences).
The cute gimmicks are an opt-in, you don't need to use/enable them all the time, or at all :)
If you get the feeling it's hyped, stop believing the media (esp. about Elon) and rent it for a week, or a weekend's long trip.
Most of the stuff you setup once and you forget it exists, because the car was designed to stay out of your way. I have done 0 maintenance in 3y, except for tire rotations.
Most "OMG I NEED A BUTTON" things are either reachable via voice control (usually good enough if you ask me), or you may have already AP engaged and you can do it via touchscreen in <3s. Climate control is usually good at keeping a good temperature w.r.t. to the outside, so it's mostly a +- 0.5°C quick-tap when it feels to warm or too cold (and the up/down controls are always present on-screen). Integrated navigation w/ Supercharger network is so amazing, it's boring. I can hop in the car for a 2000km unplanned trip, and the car will make sure I get there by planning all charging stops, preconditioning the battery for fast charging, and you can also add intermediate destinations to plan more complex trips. The first time I checked out my parents new cars (my father owns VW ID.4, my mother a Peugeot e-208) it felt like the Enterprise's deck, with buttons popping out everywhere, and you usually need a phone to have modern/up to date navigation support in addition.
Updates are usually about rolling out new (mostly opt-in) features, or bugfixes, or sometimes improving quality of life considerably (latest was "auto blinkers", last month). Sometimes they are required to improve or fix critical battery/powertrain/driving management issues. When they decide to shuffle stuff in the UI without appeal, that sucks, agreed, but it's usually for the better and it's generally an easy transition - in a couple days I usually forget I had a different UI. I can tell you for sure I'd rather have any time a 30m update installation overnight every couple weeks, than fiddling 3 days preparing a 64GB USB stick in the right format for the car to consume, only for it to fail multiple times. Or bringing in the car for service a couple days just to allow perform a "recall" that could have been only virtual. Or dealing with Bad Software Practices® anyway, like releasing v3.4 but calling it "v3.3 (rev 2205)" in the dashboard (all parents experiences).
The cute gimmicks are an opt-in, you don't need to use/enable them all the time, or at all :)