The shuttle was also conceived in the late 1960's/early 1970's. The last one was built while glass cockpits were still being dreamed up.
And we also need to take Tesla into consideration. Musk's companies are doing away with old-timey thinking in everything that they do. Tesla removes the standard switching bits and replaces them all with a giant touch screen. In the same way, Crew Dragon replaces a gazillion nobs and dials with—you guessed it—a giant touch screen (actually, 3 of them).
Simplicity is better, but simplicity comes at the cost of more behind-the-panel complexity. The software just to run those touchscreens is orders of magnitude more complex than the entirety of software that went to the moon aboard Apollo.
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