Greed is right, they're turning their backs on the die hards in favour of volume sales.
There's still brands that respect manual drivers, VW, Mazda, Hyundai, Subaru for a couple examples.
Miata's are a majority manual, GTIs/Rs are 50/50ish, Hyundai's N sub-brand currently is 100% manual and their new G70 they intentionally made a low volume of manuals to test the waters. STIs are still all manuals. High or top trim level examples but still available in lower trims.
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