well rx sad for you in 2015 traditional manual car production will stop all together so you better start collecting now xD
as I recall again while driving might be the best thing to do most of us don't live in race tracks or alps , that's why we need comfort rather than driving pleasure most of the time and a non-manual clutch gearbox could give 80% of the thrills without its drawbacks in the traffic mostly. The car isn't driving you because after all it's just a tool to lift up the gears from each other , it's hardly a matter of life or death for me. As much as you drive auto or dsg you will start to enjoy them. To me it seems like you haven't spend much time in them. Or you don't have any traffic jams in where you live. And it is understandable if so because you don't know how torturing it is to sit in a jam for 2 hours.