ability to click on buttons on steering wheels or gauges on the side of car. maybe even gear shifts

Yeah a bit more realistic

This is too complicated. It would need Scawen to implement features that would allow modders to make such animations = too much work.

On the other hand, hand movement for the H-shifter gear change is reasonable and I support this idea. Again, it would require quite some work from Scawen and all modders.

shifter animations always look bad because they're out of sync with the actual car state as they can only do the animation after the shift happens as well as doing other weird animation things like reaching near the shift point even when a shift isn't planned.

I wonder if that can be implemented with while pressing clutch, because that's what you need to press first in most H-shifter patterns. Ofc, does not work with autoclutch.