>>28474862 (OP)I don't think the problem is specifically the driver focus. But today's designers and product committees can barely put together a decent functional interior as it is.
Drop the symmetry, and they'll have even more opportunities to completely fuck up the job with random layouts, angles and materials that don't serve any functional, ergonomic or aesthetic purpose. Yay, we put random sharp silvery plastic corners here, rounded stuff here, glossy stuff here, random trim here, look at our design work.
I can definitely see why some in the design industry are worried about some fuzzy matrix multiplication machine taking their job: Said job seems to already consist of slapping together random bits of thoughtless, subhuman slop.