Ouch. In my mind if Bmw are compromising on ergonomics and intuitive controls they're shooting themselves in the foot. The tester I drove seemed fine and in line with my experience of the. Rand but you never know until you spend enough time in it.
However things like gesture control is different. It seems like an unnecessary gimmick but when we get more and more into the territory of self driving cars your hands aren't going to be near the wheel controls and who wants to touch stuff when you can describe things in 3D. Remember how cool minority report looked when it first came out?