Know what you mean about “helpful” messages. The T-roc likes to remind me that by turning off the stop/start function I will single-handedly be responsible for the death of the planet. Same for running the engine for about a minute before driving off. Regardless of the fact that I have to do this to give it time to check all its apps ‘n’ stuff to give me other messages which I don’t want to receive when driving.
I avoid the collision warning alerts by turning off the damn thing before moving. Similarly the lane-following thingey is switched off. Only takes a minute or so to switch all this stuff off but feels like an age.
The Mini was even worse. It had this bossy bird who would regularly tell me about “infotainment” and comm’s things which either were, or were not, working. Most of the messages involved something like an aux/bluetooth dongle functionality not being an RS232 with tune2air retrofit. Couldn’t understand a word. Tried to turn it off once and somehow called an emergency helpline chappie who seemed convinced I’d driven into a ditch or something and needed emergency services to get me out.