...you can tell very easily no one bothered to try and make the right hand drive a reflection of the left.
If the RHD market was a reflection of the LHD (mainland Europe) market then manufacturers wouldn't need to cut as many costs as they do to remain competitive.
The UK is unique in Europe in that we are constantly battering dealers for bigger and bigger discounts (whilst simultaneously bitching about poor residual values) at the same time that manufacturers are offering bigger and bigger incentives to try to get a bigger slice of a smaller pie.
In contrast, in Spain for example, people go to their local
dealership, buy a new car at the screen price, generally keep it until it falls to bits, and then do it again. As a result, manufacturer and dealer margins are secure, used car prices are higher (there are far fewer of them as they don't keep pushing people to change their car every 2-3 years and certainly don't pre-register thousands of cars to hit unrealistic targets) and people don't go on forums complaining that the car they have ordered doesn't have electric rear windows.
Obviously this is a massive over-simplification of how the different markets operate, but hopefully you now understand why 'hard done by' UK buyers sometimes don't get as many buttons to press as our European friends.