Completely agree. I’ve never, ever liked digital tuning, and I’ve operated a LOT of radios in my day. I’ll take pure analog tuning with mechanical dials over digital digit-by-digit tuning - any day.
The best of both worlds was a setup like the older Kenwood radios, eg, the TS-820, where you had analog mechanical readout with a digital readout above it. It is very difficult to tell how far you’re whipping across a band by looking at a digital display, because it cannot keep up as you rapidly change frequency.
For most people, I’d rate the Panasonic RF-2200 as just about an “ideal” a radio as you could get for bang:buck, simplicity and easy operation. It is a great example of marketing departments not “leaving good things alone” when they dropped the ‘2200 from their product line in favor of digital radios.
I have two analog voltmeters and thought what the hey, go modern, get a digital, so I did.
Ended up giving it away. WORTHLESS!!!! The numbers just kinda randomly jumped all over the spectrum!
Gimme dials and knobs any day of the week...