Best thing about sports mode or manual mode on some auto’s with the paddles is that when you do floor it, it changes up for you before you blow the engine up and you ain’t gotta touch the paddles at all it will also downshift if revs get to low.
I used to love holding it in m3 in my honda civic sport and then flooring it and the vtec would come in also Hardly ever did it in D. Was an omg and a big smile everytime.