Knowing that changes to the game like the transmission come after a long time of Hitech observing the function. And Changes to that change can be one of two things. First, almost overnight because it had some disparate impact on all players or second, over a long time again of observing it.
I never understood what about the way the old manual transmission functioned was observed to need the new automatic transmission replacement. I mostly ignored any negatives with the change and did my best to work with what it allowed me to do. I was always curious why the change was made to understand the benefits over the manual transmission.
Note: Not being a hard core GVer, I make no claim to understanding the problems with the automatic transmission.