>>11725838Pilots ARE using "thousands" of switches because it's reliable.
And check out any music forum and browse around for the discussions about menu diving vs one button - one function. It's simply a trade off between real estate and functionality.
For something as mission critical as space launches, glass = ass.
Then there's the case of gorilla arms and shit. Without even looking at the manual and knowing anything about this specific shuttle, I can tell that the deeper into gorilla arm territory, the less a specific control is used:
>>11723700Space X manned launch is just a photo-op. The real goal of that company is to litter the space with some 42K shit sattelites, killing off ground based astronomy until someones brings a space Hoover.
