I highly recommend everyone learns to drive a manual before it becomes a dead art, it's truly a lot more fun and engaging experience.
That being said there's obvious cause for the shift to all-automatic, just like we'll all be using self-driving cars not long in the future.
However what concerns me is that automatic transmissions are not only more expensive in general, but harder to maintain / less reliable. That a trend of laziness has created this demand, to the point where 97% of US consumers choose to pay more to automate the process I find so enjoyable.
To be fair a majority use case for driving is daily commute, and it's not nearly as fun to drive a manual in heavy traffic as it is to cruise windy roads on the weekend.
That being said there's obvious cause for the shift to all-automatic, just like we'll all be using self-driving cars not long in the future.
However what concerns me is that automatic transmissions are not only more expensive in general, but harder to maintain / less reliable. That a trend of laziness has created this demand, to the point where 97% of US consumers choose to pay more to automate the process I find so enjoyable.
To be fair a majority use case for driving is daily commute, and it's not nearly as fun to drive a manual in heavy traffic as it is to cruise windy roads on the weekend.