Automatics are more complex and harder to repair, easier breaks. Damages that would give a manual gearbox 'personality', might make the automatic refuse to eng

Automatics are more complex and harder to repair, easier breaks. Damages that would give a manual gearbox 'personality', might make the automatic refuse to engage gear at all. The accelerator padel in practice also becomes a shift down gear button. So you need to keep your feet at a more specific position of the pedal. When towing trailers the automatic gear selection is usually bad. You can't start the engine by rolling it and release the clutch when low on batteries or the starter motor is somewhat broken. I would say this is the biggest drawback of automatics. On the other hand, automatics are nice in queues.