I love shifting but what got me to switch away was the realization that self driving was the future. Having a clutch on an EV allows me to relive my youth I guess but without being able to listen to the whine of the engine and watch the tachometer it really wouldn't be the same. I even have to wonder if this one will ever even see production.

There was an interesting series on TV, "Downey's Dream Cars", where Robert Downey Jr. did conversions of some of his gasoline cars to various renewable-driven engines, electric, biofuel etc. On one of these, the original plan was to put in a manual electric drive, which I was looking forward to seeing, but unfortunately that got cut as there wasn't room for the manual transmission.

Anything that gets petrol-heads on board with EVs is good IMO, hope they don't get burned for it.

It’s utterly pointless and even counter productive, yet ever since experiencing a prototype manual electric I want one very much.