I learned how to drive in my mom’s 2011 DSG CC. That was PQ35-era (MK5/MK6 chassis) TCU software. I still love that car to this day and it now has 130K on it.
My 2015 MK7 DSG GTI had the same transmission as my mom’s CC, but the TCU tuning is far more efficiency oriented than driveability. It always annoyed me. And when I got my Uni TCU tune and it didn’t address the issues I had with it, I had a bad taste in my mouth about DSG and wanted to return to manual (my previous 2 GTIs before the DSG MK7 were 6MT).
so I got a manual... and a year and a half in, I just didn’t care as much for it as I thought I did, at least not in a day-in day-out sense. I liked it sometimes, and not others. Despite 10 years’ experience driving stick, it felt like the transmission behaved differently day to day. Some days I got great shifts and it was sublime. Other days no matter what I did I couldn’t hit any smooth shifts.
also my gf got a 2014 TDI wagon (also PQ35) DSG and I absolutely love that car and how the factory ECU/TCU work together. Very few complaints.
I wish I got a DSG on the Alltrack because I would’ve gotten an APR tune which I have reason to believe would have kept me happier than the Uni tune I got on my 2015 GTI.
Anyway, getting an SUV about it now haha.