The old school Japanese toilets actually make more sense. Things line up better. I had the opportunity to use squatters before, especially in the more rural areas of Japan. When you use a regular toilet, it's like squeezing a tube of toothpaste from the middle. When you use a squatter, the very act of squatting makes you squeeze the tube from the end.
I remember going into a bathroom in Kyoto where one of the stalls was labeled "Western Toilet". I thought it looked pretty much normal to me, so I opened one of the other stall doors to see what the alternative was. A squatter definitely takes some getting used to , but not a good option if you have a case of the green apple quickstep.
The Cadillac high end toilets are western style, but some come with several buttons, and many more moving parts than you would expect. I could recognize the kanji for "big flush" vs "little flush", but many of the other options scared me.