I'd love to see a Mazda-designed, touchscreen-free EV.

Does there even currently exist a consumer EV without a touchscreen?

Bollinger's models, but they're trucks.

And also absurdly expensive, to the point of making Tesla look affordable.

Until Apple or Android can unify car's entire UI it'll be up to the manufacturers or whoever they contract it to.

And who's going to design and build an EV without a touchscreen these days?