Wonder why they don't optically refocus the display at a distance?

There are ways to do stuff like this.

The people working on these things likely don't use the end product.

Since we are talking about car companies, it's cost-cutting, probably.

I had an old mazda3 (2014) with a little pop up plastic screen HUD, and it was focused at some distance significantly greater than the distance between my head and the screen.

Like a light field display? ...