Comment by someonebaggy

Automatic transmissions are objectively better, though I also find it respectable to challenge yourself a little by insisting on driving manual. But they're also change. Electric cars don't even need a transmission at all, that's change. And push-button start, anyone?

My great great grandmother grew up with neither electricity nor cars. It's been nonstop change for the last hundred years, and I don't get to special-plead that change must stop now just because it's when I'm alive.

The changes from the distant past that stuck were better for users while the ones from the recent past that stuck were better for shareholders - that's possibly the only relevant difference.