Price of vehicle seems to have little bearing on the comfort of driving anymore, other than if you're tall and being shoved into something small like a Yaris (although at 6'4" my Saturn S-series wasn't bad at all). Cars seem to keep getting more aggravating to sit in, not less, and doubly so for "premium" stuff people like to buy. Manufacturers keep jamming what feel like racing seats into everything (everything has to have "racing" parts) and other things that make no sense at all for the task at hand, like enormous wheels with rubber band tires. It was way easier and more comfortable to log huge miles on older stuff like 90s and early 00's Chevy trucks (even the S10s) or a regular old Impala or Saturn as they were way, way more comfortable and not a persistent bloated irritation to drive.
Cars must be the textbook case of Stockholm syndrome. People keep buying Audi/BMW/Mercedes and European cars in general for god knows what reason (even though when they inevitably need service, it is always an expensive nightmare, among other big problems), they buy stuff that is functionally useless and stupid looking like CUVs (many of which which have less interior room than a Camry, burn more fuel and still ride and drive like ass), and have caused the market for full size body on frame trucks to turn completely on its head (hard to find anything other than pavement queen king ranch doodoo trucks that will cost you at least your first born son). This whole "it's shit if I don't pay a huge premium, and it's shit if it's not huge and loaded to the gills with useless shit you're never actually going to miss or use but will cost a small country's GDP to even flash to pair up when you need to R&R" is something that's probably one of life's great mysteries to me.