I hate when that happens too. But, the continuous glass surface is easier to clean.
In old cook tops with knobs, new life started under the knobs after some time. And the grease…I’m fine with car oil and grease, but kitchen grease 
Sure, but the control panel could be external and not on the plate itself. Or wireless etc.
They used to have them with the controls under the countertop e.g. controls for oven and hob.
Ideally, the bottom of the induction hob would have some kind of port where you could plug in the controller unit.
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The only cooktop I can find that still has seperate knobs, mounted on the cabinet front rather than on the cooktop itself, is Gaggenau. With a ridiculous price to match. That’s what my 20 year old unit has - I insisted on seperate dials after the dog managed to turn on a touch screen unit - yikes!
Looking at Galaxus, there are some Nef cooktops (at saner prices) with something that looks like a dial incorporated into the cooktop itself - I’d want to see one in real life to understand how it worked.
The advantage of Siemens, Bosch, Gaggenau is they (mostly) have interchangeable parts which are readily available all over the place at a good price and so likely to be available for a long time.
The differenced between a Siemens and a Gaggenau is often the construction - Gaggenau have solid metal parts but Siemens have plastic ones. The working bits are often the same.
Our hob has those. The amount of times I’ve leaned against them getting something out of a cupboard and turned them on…
But I’m not a dog…
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The last remaining mutt is too short to reach countertops, and too arthritic to jump, so this time around seperate knobs are not a deal breaker.
But I’d love to have them if possible, as I find knobs simply more robust. On the con side, though, you lose a bit of potential cabinet space under the cooktop.
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