Get well soon Asker, that doesn't sound nice. Hopefully Spring will have sprung before long and it'll warm us all up and our winter blues will clear the hell out. I had a flu type bug weeks ago and just can't shake it.
Your handover just demonstrates how complicated modern cars are and there's just a bewildering amount of buttons on the Golf steering wheel. You do get used to them all eventually but they're not exactly intuitive. At least they have a good solid feel though.
I jumped in a colleague's R32 the other day and was blown away by a) how good the mk5 steering wheel still is and b) how much simpler cars were just a few short years ago without all of the pointless extras we've come to expect now. You get in and drive a mk5 and can concentrate on driving rather than fiddling around with dozens of pointless sub-menus and settings.