“The step-back in technology will give sailors more tactile feedback and remove the ambiguity and uncertainty ...”
Characterization of this as a “step-back” is a big part of the reason they got to this mess in the first place.
Believing complicated controls and screens are better than simple controls that have been proven to work FOR DECADES is characteristic of the techno-fool mentality that can’t leave well enough alone.
The Techno-twit thinks that controls constantly have to be the most modern, woke, cool, high-tech, advanced, disruptive, transformative, innovative...
Instead, all you get is overcomplicated crap that some millenial idiot thinks is an improvement.
I have NO experience here..
But I would have to assume that two/ four big sticks with knobs/ handles on the top indicating forward or reverse and how fast is a lot easier to understand quickly than just about anything else.
I was in a sports car with a manual transmission and the driver got stuck in a rut on the side of the road. I watched her try several times to get it out. I then said I think I can do this if you will let me try.
So, got in the driver's seat, put it in first gear, let the clutch out slightly and as the car rocked up the side of the rut, pushed it in again. Rocked up the other side and let the clutch out again.
Couple of rocks and I was up and out of the rut. Standard maneuver with a manual transmission. Try doing that with an automatic transmission with a touch screen.
Some of these human-machine interfaces have been designed over decades. Some over millennia. They work because they have evolved over time to be the best way to do it.