Hello from Europe
I have been growing up with manual transition, but I do not buy it anymore. (most people here still drive shift gears btw... I simply stopped it decades ago)
The security and comfort you get from automatic shifting is so much better than any perceived control gain.
Fun fact is that F1 racing cars use nowadays semi automatic shifting and have been for a long time, its only the end customers who still demand it because they think it is so sporty.
Also fun fact manual transition is cheaper or used to be thats one of the major reasons why car manufacturers loved it and told everyone that it is so sporty while in fact real race cars used various methods of auto shifting or semi auto shifting since the 90s
Next fact is that in E-Cars it makes absolutely no sense, because most E-Cars are not shifted but controlled via the e-motor alone who can cover a way bigger ground of rotation speed in optimal efficiency (10% to almost 100% of the rotation speed).
So adding a shifting gear to that mix would make control even way worse and you would lose efficiency big time. There are some cars which have exactly 2 gear stages to get more efficiency out but I am not sure if that works out because by adding another gear layer on top you lose efficiency and acceleration efficiency.