What I would like to do: Grant minimum privileges between car and phone and Toyota and their 4.7E+19 partners such that I can view maps and play the static audio files on my phone through the car's speakers AND NOTHING ELSE. No optional services, no trial offers, nothing but music and maps, full stop.

My options seem to be full telemetry to everybody + dog or the surveillance infotainment console is a blue-screened brick with an always-on nag screen that can't be dimmed or turned off.

I mean THIS IS COMPLETELY WHAT I EXPECTED WHEN I BOUGHT THIS CAR. I AM NOT SHOCKED OR SURPRISED, just gravely disappointed that Toyota won't do better.

I'm just so tired of zero-consent coercive phone-oriented computing. In the analog hardware world there would be a breaker I could pull or pins I could jumper to coerce the system into the desired operating mode. This is worse than a brick. Bricks don't actively nag you.

I doubt Toyota is the best or worst in this regard and that there's no modern vehicle that doesn't pull this shit. All roads lead back to Google and Apple so what do you expect?

The missing features aren't going to kill me but I'm stuck with this massive dead-to-me display in the middle of the dash that would be better replaced with a double-DIN bay and third-party non-integrated electronics.