I find it very tedious to perform a simple adjustment on the sound tune such as bass

If you like to adjust your bass on the fly, you're out of luck. It seems to be a one-for-all setting.
I got a nice Sony head unit when my stereo died on my Gen 3.

 

The migration to completely unusable controls is relentless. If I’m driving somone else’s car, I don’t even entertain using the “entertainment system”.

Heat/vent controls, that a couple of decades back could be adjusted easily, without ever taking your eyes off the road, are now a dangerously distracting mess.

 

I hate the current trend away from giving the customer what they want. The new radio in the Prius seems geared to feeding you what they want. It takes an unreasonable number of steps just to get to the radio station you want to listen to.

 

Yeah turning a tuning dial is passe.

I appreciate it is digital behind the scenes, but I believe it is possible still, to employ a tuning dial that emulates the old school tuner.

Our 06 civic hybrid, attached:

 

Doubt it will happen any time soon. You could use an equalizer on your phone , the 3 band eq in the car menus is next to useless.

 

when the spirit moves us or just sitting in the driveway with the volume up, the tedium is reduced enough to be not that noticeable and the sound comes through load and clear no matter what system is being used. When we get access to true discrete spatial sound systems we'll all wonder what we've been kept in the dark about the real power of sound entering our ears.