I'm actually fine with this. The first thing that used to fail on all 1970s-2010s consumer electronics from experience were the tactile and physical controls followed immediately by any media transport. That hasn't changed really but the effort to minimise the number of physical controls and remove mechanical complexity is a decent improvement on device longevity and quality.
Even if I compare phones, back in the day I wore a hole through several keys on my Nokia 3510i in under a year. Modern smartphones can look and work like new after 2 years, if the vendor hasn't abandoned the infernal things. We can do the same with other consumer electronics.
You are 100% right. The only thing that makes me do the things I do to my home sound system, is that I want to be in control as much as possible about what I can play. I've got a Squeezebox, and I run it in the local server mode. Because then I can point it to an area in my file storage, and it will play every format known from there, not counting the
Tidal snake oil,of course. It also plays all the Internet radio I can find. Most of it in nicely curated preset lists. There's a FLOSS client for Android that I can use to control the system. Locally, also when I've got no Internet connection. The client has an entry field for the address of the server, so I don't have to go all mDNS / everything on one LAN security nightmare crap.
I also have a 100% analog multi-room system, because I don't trust companies like Sonos to refrain from doing a Nest.
Recently I added a BT receiver to the multiroom system. Very convenient. It's like all those app shite systems but without the lock-in.
I fully appreciate the ease of those new solutions, but being in control -- where it matters -- is important to me. Also, TE-grade record players like my SL1000 Swedish Radio Edition need this to actually play along.
What I miss is a good RS232 or IP controlled FM tuner. With balanced outputs.