Why look at anything hi tech here, how long did digital watches last. Not long because the brain can determine all kinds of things from the hands on a watch -like, I am late I am early I can catch that train after the merest glance.
As a regular passenger and aviation enthusiast I would hope that Boeing and Ab choose the optimum form of display of key parameters for pilot interpretation rather than what fits on the screen -that's not to say that it would have made any difference in this incident since instruments were pretty much superfluous anyway but people might well have a point about bad weather/night especially as many pilots on here have commented they couldn't read the panel easily in bad turbulence and a general position on a dial is easier to determine than numbers surely
Anyway just a view from a customer perspective , important in all businesses except aviation where only price matters, and that's dig at both sides of the equation industry and consumer