My new Honda is actually not that bad. Auto relock is more like 30 seconds and possibly can be disabled (haven't gone carefully through the menus) and most of the other nonsense in that article is absent.
About the only major annoyance - and that's optional since the keyfob still has lock/unlock buttons - is that walk away autolock works about 9 times out of 10 - so you always always have to listen for the click of the locks - and that the touch sensors on the front door handles, which are supposed to toggle between locked and not, often decide that you want to lock your already locked car 3-4x in a row before finally unlocking. You could, of course, use the keyfob, but everything about the car trains you to just keep that in a zipped pocket.
About the only major annoyance - and that's optional since the keyfob still has lock/unlock buttons - is that walk away autolock works about 9 times out of 10 - so you always always have to listen for the click of the locks - and that the touch sensors on the front door handles, which are supposed to toggle between locked and not, often decide that you want to lock your already locked car 3-4x in a row before finally unlocking. You could, of course, use the keyfob, but everything about the car trains you to just keep that in a zipped pocket.