Nothing wrong thinking like that. Every technology has its costs, some people prefer refinement and some people prefer the raw feel.

I daily my car and drive 200km+ so no I am not going to get a car for the raw feels. I don't want to buy a raw feeling car with less luxury/comfort and another strictly for daily driving. I want one that has a good balance in between because I'm greedy like that. I want one that can fit my kids in and once they get out of my car I can go do silly things with it and have technology save my ass.

I don't wanna be like "Hey kids, we only get to ride the cool car on the weekends. Today we have to drive the RAV4"

For an E46 obviously I wouldnt care for the nav package as its probably too old to be any function anyways. But for a relatively new E90 one with and without tech are approx the same price so i'd want to look for one that has it, not because im gonna use the nav or even need it but its just nice to have. Go on road trips it'd be nice to have nav and a good sound system on the ride.

Still don't know what I want. I think at this point im gonna keep looking for E46's since they are in current budget. E90's and 35-45k cars can be fit into the budget but i'd rather not at the current moment.

^ I would rather have a minty 04/05 E46 M3 Vs a beat up 08 E92 M3.