Manual transmissions are almost entirely extinct in new vehicles (in the US at least) and even some manuals have an interlock that can prevent you from taking it out of gear if the power-train control module decides it needs to stay in gear.
That's why I jumped to buy a new one as soon as I had the money. No interlock on the gearbox, no electric seats to break, manual parking brake, but with android auto on an OEM infotainment.
Not saying they're super common, but as someone who writes software, I don't like the increasing dependency on software implementations of certain components that are fairly simple in their mechanical form.
