I remember trying to teach one of my kids to drive a stick about 16 years ago. This kid is brilliant, a double major in the sciences and instructional tempered as well. But the car I had was equiped with a grabby quick spring pressure hydro clutch and he couldn’t get the feel for it. It made him so mad I thought he would have a stroke.
When a lot of use older guys learned we had steering column mounted three speeds with low rpm higher torgue engines on old pick-up trucks and sedans to start learning on. It made it a lot easier to get started. Even if you slammed it and popped it, it would still muddle through without the stalls and giant jerks of the higher rpm engines of the 80s and 90s.
I hear ya...
My car is a Hyundai Elantra...very underpowered. I have determined that it is physically impossible for anybody to learn on that car (without breaking something).
I have 2 cars with a manual, Volvo S60 and Corolla. Both of my kids (late teens and early 20’s) learned to drive them. We considered it a life skill like swimming which they had to learn.