It's interesting how cultural that must be. Here in Germany most mainstream cheap microwaves in the last decades still have electromechanical knobs, one for selecting power, one for time. If forced to draw a microwave out of memory that is my canonical mental image – and I didn’t had a microwave the last 15 years.
Basic Example: https://www.bosch-home.com/de/de/product/kochen-backen/mikro...
Until this article I had no idea what US-Americans were (rightfully) bitching about.
(Edit: Oh, I see, the cheaper Bosch Microwave range has capacitive buttons. Erghs.)