That app sounds a bit like as if you got Mrs Hyacinth Bucket riding shotgun.?
Glad your getting on with the auto and like you in my non disabled days I’d always go for manual, more so as they were cheaper but if I were to become non disabled tomorrow would I go back to manuals, probably not living in a city full of jams.
My eldest grandson passed his test just over a year ago and bought a nearly new VW Polo manual and he was with me the other week and sussing out my DSG box and he said “do you know what, when I next renew my car I’m going for automatic”.
That said he hopes to go electric so will be auto anyway.