After more than 2 weeks with the Skoda I'm now feeling pretty much at ease with it for daily driving. The driving experience, as far as what's going on when you're behind the wheel is very similar to the Ibiza - bearing out what you say above Andy.
Being basically the SE version with a few additions - reportedly worth £2000 if ordered separately - it has the ordinary dash display so is very similar to the Ibiza although, for some reason only known to Skoda? the speedo is marked in 20mph increments so doesn't have a 30mph marked?
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Mine looks almost Identical to this, despite now being an 8 and a half year old car.
Same tachometer, same speedo, same fuel and coolant temp, there are some stylistic changes and mine does read in 10mph increments. Then in the middle I have the same LCD screen with oil temp and all your other usual trip computer stuff.
The layout of the rest of the dash is also largely similar. The screen being above the heater vents is probably the main difference but I think they do this on newer cars to lift the screen more into the eye line of the driver.
Talking about the touch screen, on mine the screen sits below the air vents, quite a lot further down the dash, which is probably much the same as every VW built between 2005 and 2020, you do have to look down and take your eye more away from the road to use it.
I have added an Alexa Auto to my car. I have Amazon prime music and this way I can literally voice control whatever I want to come on the radio, whether that is a radio station or a specific song. I can also voice control the lights on, on the front of the house when I am coming home, put the heating on or the hot water and even put the kettle on this is far more useful than the touch screen and I get a verbal response from the Alexa to let me know I have been understood so again nothing to need to touch or check visually.
This is really what cars need not bigger touch screens and complex menus with fancy graphics.
There is one oddity with the speedo on my car which is that it goes up in smaller units of 10mph with marks for the 5mph increments inbetween, then you get to 80mph and the next mark is actually 90mph and the next speed is 100mph, it then goes up in 20mph increments after 80mph. which can be quite confusing if your brain thinks you're doing 85mph and you're actually doing 90mph and before anyone tells me I shouldn't be going that fast I drive a lot on the continent where 80mph is the upper limit and so being a couple of mph over the limit might not be a concern but being 10mph over is quite a difference.