How’s the software in these “luxury” vehicles? I mean, every Chinese-branded device I’ve ever owned has had either the most minimal interface (which can be good or great depending on the use case) or absolute garbage.

Some can be buggy AF but that’s not what I mean when I say, “absolute garbage”. I mean, they can be:

• Stupidity slow due to underpowered processors (whole automotive industry seems to suffer from this).
• Very poorly designed from a UX perspective. Example: You’ll have seven extremely similar icons for completely different things or having to click/swipe way too many times to reach the most often-used features.
• Very strange color choices (not a big deal but more of a, “LOL WTF‽” situation).
• Piss poor integration with anything and everything (e.g. Bluetooth barely works, clock doesn’t sync the time, only half your contacts sync, names for people/things appear with mixed-up first name/last name, left/right audio is swapped, and similar, “they didn’t actually test the thing” problems).
• Nothing customizable. Whatever the stock theme is, that’s what you’re stuck with forever. You’ll have six sounds to choose from for everything with no way to add new ones. This is typical for the automotive industry as a whole though.
• Everything looks like the developer used a placeholder/minimum viable interface and just left it like that forever. Example: Even though it’s a bad idea to use fonts with varying-width numbers for a digital clock or timer that’s what they’ll use because it was the default and they couldn’t be bothered.