>>20789529Driving manual requires skill; not much of a skill but a skill nonetheless. That creates a barrier to entry. Corporations hate barriers to entry because it reduces their potential customer base. Therefore, automatics are prioritized and manuals are disappearing.
Lowest common denominator always wins in a free-market democracy. A system like ours has no capacity to hold things away from people until they've earned it, it'll always find a way to stoop down to their level. Which in turn drops down further, since people lose the sense that they should ever rise to something rather than it coming down to them.
