>>12896613I think I may be an autist but I've never owned an automatic car myself and actively avoid them.
Admittedly I don't have much experience with them but they're always sluggish to shift down when I want to accelerate quickly, yet they somehow they also tend hold on to gears too much when they should be upshifting.
Manual just seems simpler to me, I've never driven an automatic that shifts the way I want it to. I'd rather just move to an electric car than ICE with a shitty automatic.