VW needs to move with the times as far as the Golf is concerned.
Since I've been looking at other new cars, I've noticed most if not all have some facility to access the internet be it Facebook, twitter, news or the weather. It might not be to everyone's tastes but cars are evolving and they need to keep up.
I don't know if it was just a Golf thing in that it had little in the way of extras as most were already included, but most other marques I looked at had umpteen "useful" extras whereas the Golf only seemed to have a few basic ones.