This reminds me so much of Sony's camcorders in the early 2000's, when they decided to simplify the user interface by putting on a touchscreen and removing almost all regular buttons for manual functions. The end result was everything neatly and logically stored in nested menus you could access simply by tapping the screen.

The problem: it was slow and utterly unusable if you actually wanted any of those manual features.

A couple of generations later they did a full 180 - scrapped the touchscreen and put on a button for everything. I have one of those first prosumer models with that concept, the HDR-FX1. It has 38 buttons, 12 switches, 2 toggles, 2 wheels, 2 rings and 1 dial.