For whatever reason, the Honda fans or would-be Honda fans seems to be really hard on Acura as a brand. I'm not exclusive or bias towards any brand other than common knowledge and experience with their reputation.
I've sat in and driven many cars over the years, old, modern, and new. My sense is that the new Acura's are getting better in most cases with their interior design especially with such sculpted/more articulated designs in the wake of more advanced 3D CAD modeling, compared to the sterile styling of German interior which is usually more elementary and geometric that reflect the 80's limited CAD effective capabilities.
The pictures of the Porsche's interior in this thread represent that simplistic or minimalist approach. Now some may argue that, this is what they prefer and we could go round and round about which one is better. However, again, in this new era of CAD dominate industry, the interiors that are harder or "more challenging" to manufacturer would be the more articulated designs, such as what Acura has been doing in some instances like the NSX's interior with the Y-shaped aluminum element being prevalent in the interior. So in one argument, you can say the Germans took the easy way out and made an easy-to-make interior. On the other hand, one could argue that a more complex interior would make things complicated and more prone to breaking, although I don't see much of the interior moving so I think it's a sound approach.
Most people don't like change I suppose and still want the simple interiors of the 80s, when technology limited the imagination and the shapes were more predictable. There is something really powerful with immediately understanding a design upon first view, but sometimes it's nice to be risky and have a complicated layout too.
