PIP cab environmental controls

I have a gripe. Last night it was raining and humid and my windshield was getting fogged up. I had to stab at the controls on the dashboard to get the right one.
On the steering wheel, there's a toggle for inside/outside air circulation.
Why doesn't this button control the other settings? That would have been logical and far safer.
In my mind it would display a menu on the front display, and you'd select fan speed, inside/outside, defogger etc.

 

Thanks for the compliment, bisco. But stupidity has nothing to do with it. It's a matter of ergonomics. The old-style mechanical airflow controls were simple, yes, but highly effective - you could find the common controls in one place, and just twisted the knob to the desired setting. Having the settings located on different buttons is not ergonomic at all because you don't have the intuitive sense where the darn thing is. They managed to have both front and rear wipers located on one control stick, which is easy to reach and fairly easy to control (I still mix up the rear setting - wipe vs wipe with spray). I would feel very stupid if I was looking for the defogger, missed it, looked down, and then BANG hit the car ahead of me.

 

I personally think that inexperienced young engineers were tasked with designing the cab. They were used to pushing buttons and thought that this paradigm would naturally transfer to a car. It doesn't.

 

#2. My first was a 2001 Prius. It was much better, cab-wise.