when 900 years old you reach, drive a manual, you will not!!
i love using my brain, and i always feel like i know exactly what i want the car to do, i just feel that as more and more electronic gizmos get inserted, it's a constantly getting tougher to make that exact thing happen.
is there such thing as a linear throttle tune? maybe that would be the best of both worlds. really i just feel like since the advent of drive-by-wire i've been falling out of love with rowing my own gears. i never felt like it was a chore or a hassle, now i get these moments where i feel i'm just talking to the car, going "really?! that's what you thought i meant?".
perhaps i'm just too much of a perfectionist, and feel like the dsg will do a more perfect job than me, now that the other tools have changed.