It's not so much being analog or being mechanical that's important, although these properties may mitigate some failure modes & make failures easier to diagnose & repair.
Thoughts on UX and both my and nontechnical users' preference for appliances with mechanical/analog controls...
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The important thing is that the UI is a state machine that behaves as if there's no important hidden state.
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What makes a washing machine with a dial/knob that goes through the cycles as it rotates good is not the knob, but that you can see *and set* the maximal part of the state that makes sense to have control over.
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You can make a bad machine with a knob (on so many current appliances, knob is not state just an initial input), but conversely you can make a touchscreen control that's good.
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