What Ferrari and Lamborghini does doesn't concern me but I'll keep buying cars with manual transmission for as long I can get one. I wouldn't buy a new car anyway so that alone gives me atleast 10 extra years. I still refuse to buy smartphones without a headphone jack either. Why? Mostly because of a principle.
I don't mind driving a manual. Every car I've owned has had a manual transmission so automatic would be a solution to a problem that I don't have. I like driving and I don't want the car to do the driving for me.
I have not had a manual in many years, but I will say I would prefer to have one because, whether or not it's actually true, I felt like I was in more control of the car and, because of that, felt safer. The peace of mind was nice.
The initial performance is always decent. The problem is the planned obsolessence. To compare two 2017 phones: my mom's Huawei p10 and my Redmi 4X, for example. The p10's geekbench score is ~2* the Redmi's and it's visible even in simple use. Web browsing works fine on the p10, but on the Redmi, it takes way longer to render a page slightly heavier, than wikipedia. OSMand works on the p10 perfectly, but on the Redmi, it takes very long to calculate routes and crashes often. If you want to use a phone for ~10 years, it's usually better to invest in a performant one.
If you truly must use your wired headphones with your cell phone? They make some really nice small form factor USB C to audio jack adapters. Hell, saw a few that were cable+adapter+AudiophileApprovedDAC for what that is worth.
Those jacks can't turn and aren't strong enough for work. I'm going to turn around quickly, snag a cable and - well, those ports are so dense that I don't need to really do a lot of damage, do I?
While I'd normally completely approve of the blatant rip-off that is buying a c$20 adapter to make up for the manufacturer omitting a 3c part on the build, their answer "oh we know the startac was a thing but we just cant figure out how to fit a headphone jack on something twice the size" rings a little hollow. It's like they're admitting to stupid.
Just bought a car with a manual transmission and I love it. Someone mentioned in this thread that they didn't want the car to do the driving for them and I couldn't agree more. Having control over the acceleration makes such a difference.