"More functions only equals more complicated to the technophobes."
I disagree with that. It often comes down to being given little choice other than to accept functions that you don't want, don't need and will never use - just to get the basic functions that you do want.
I enjoy cooking and only very rarely do I buy any sort of "ready meal". A microwave is good for cooking a few things, but I use it mainly for reheating and defrosting. The problem is that I want a slightly larger one than most basic models, and they seem to come with a whole range of options that I will never use.
There is a similar situation with my wife's car. What use does anyone have for a slide show of photographs on the "Info-mation" screen - to name but one useless option?
You can argue that it doesn't matter if you don't use them, but I ask "why should I pay for things I don't want just to get the bits that I do"?
I'll just throw in for good measure, that after studying engineering at university, I worked for 30 years in electronics and IT. As an engineer, my job involved testing and debugging newly built large mainframe computers. None of your downloading an "app" to your 10G thick phone - this was "real" programming. You wrote diagnostic loops and entered them in hex straight into 'core', set up the registers etc.. and "hit the tit" as we put it. Often, you included a branch on error to the address "dead". A mouse was something that ate cheese and was chased by cats.