@csukovich good question!
Short answer, no!
An object with different parts like this doesn’t need to be separated into different objects when the parts are not going to be animated.
If you wish to animate the buttons being pressed, then yes, separating each button as individual objects would be required and then all the individual buttons would then need to be parented to the console object.
Animation of the buttons is not part of this course, so there is no need to separate into different objects.
Happy Blending!
