Canon needs to realize that touch sensitive control is not the future for every device even if it has become the standard for the most widespread devices, cell phones.
For something like a cell phone where your undivided attention is usually focused on what you're doing with the controls, touch sensitive controls are fine. They're easy to use and you can do unique things with them.
For a device like a camera where your primary focus is not on the camera itself but rather what you're pointing it at, you need physical controls with tactile feedback. Otherwise you end up hunting around for the controls, not being able to use them precisely, and bumping them when you don't mean to.
Nothing this silly touch bar does couldn't be replicated by a simple rocker switch in its place, and then you could actually feel what you're doing instead of trying to feel out (no pun intended) what is happening with this touch bar, which gives you no feedback.
If you look at Ford vehicles from the early 2010s, they made all of the buttons in the center console touch sensitive buttons and bars that you swipe. People hated it. They went back to buttons after a few years. When you're focused on the road in front of you, it's better to have a physical button that gives you tactile feedback rather than some touch sensitive thing that you have to hunt around for. The same thing goes for a camera.
Just because touching and swiping has become the control method of choice on phones, that doesn't necessarily translate to every other device, especially ones that have controls that you have to manipulate while your main focus is on something else. Canon needs to learn this. Touch sensitive controls in this application isn't futuristic or forward thinking, it's just bad design for this application.