Since the early 90s, all my cars had manual transmissions. The traffic in this area finally got me to go with an automatic (officially a CVT) when I bought my Subaru a few years back. I was a little surprised at how quickly I stopped fishing around for a clutch pedal while driving. The hardest part was to not try to downshift when slowing down.

I will say that there's still some frustration when the transmission doesn't shift when I think it should. It really likes to hold in 3rd gear longer than I like. It does have paddle shifters so that it can be driven in a pseudo-manual mode. I've never done that, but I have used one of them to make it shift up when it's holding in 3rd gear way too long.