For myself its not the fact of having the gear selector on the steering wheel stalk per se but in my case driving with the use of my right-hand only means, in the case of the new Tiguan, that I have to have a more complicate remote control, not to mention more expensive, on the steering to control the things that were at finger tip reach to the right of the steering wheel.
It’s just another case of simple changes to life making things more awkward for we disabled folk be it changes to our cars or having to use apps to pay for parking, its not as simple as it may appear to abled bodied folk. ??