I taught both my son and daughter how to drive in vehicles with stick shift. My son is now 30 and my daughter 25 and both can drive almost anything. I have never owned a vehicle without a stick shift.
When I lived on Japan it was different learning to shift with your left hand. Wasn’t hard though. And two of the vehicles I owned while living there had the shifters on the column. That is common there but do they even put shifters on the column anymore on anything in this country?