I can agree the car controls could be better for sure, yet I never really saw a desire to drive on grass and technically the Regalia can drive on some dirt roads. Of anything, I found the driving to be boring which is why I was happy to leave it to Ignis. Hell, I even found the chocobos boring as well, but I feel this is due to the world map just being too damn big in general. One of my beefs with the game in general was that I often felt like most of my playtime was just me trying to get some where as opposed to having exiting adventures. I'll give SE kudos for having a few events randomly pop up while on the road, but they hardly make up for the sheer boredom of "are we there yet?"