I drive stick. I recently rode with a colleague in his automatic car and was impressed how smooth it felt. Currently I don't really care. I think when you drove an automatic car for a couple of months you don't want to go back against especially with a new car and all its assistant systems where you don't have to do much on your own on the autobahn at least. But I will drive mine until it falls apart.
Currently it is good to be able to drive both because then you have way more choices on the used car market but in 5-10 years everything will be electric anyway.



