> They have a wealth of creature comforts and features beyond what 1980s cars had.

I don't want these, I don't want to pay for them. They raise the cost and they're unavoidable. This is a NEGATIVE, not a positive.

For you. Everyone's tastes are different. I remember riding around in cars in the 80s, and I much prefer the comfort of my current modern car, enough to make some trade offs around the annoying computerization of it.

I suspect that there are more people around with my tastes than yours, and that's a driver of sales.