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There could be something wrong with it, but I'll throw this out there as food for thought: This car, transmission included, rewards you when it likes how you drive and punishes you when it doesn't.
What I mean by that in this context is that most cars with manual transmissions are fairly sloppy compared to this one. In my old S10, it was pretty difficult to mess up a shift. But at the same time, there was almost no feedback at all from the shifter. Some people might consider that "smooth," but to me it just felt loose.
This car is different. If you pay attention to what the car is telling you, you can feel the synchronizers working. It starts out very tight from the factory and loosens up over time, but it will still tell you when you're shifting out of the power band or out of the ideal tolerances of the synchros. You should still be in the fairly tight stage at your mileage.
I learned to drive in tiny British sports cars (MGs and Triumphs) that had gearboxes that felt very much like this one, but after many years in other vehicles, I had to get used to the feel of this transmission and had my share of embarrassing shifts. Having been around performance cars, however, I knew not to assume that the machine was the problem. At 32K miles now, it shifts beautifully. Part of that, however, is that I shift the way the car wants me to. We had our disagreements along the way, but now we're a team.
So if the mechanics say there's nothing wrong with it, or if they "fix" it only to have the new transmission behave the same way, try listening to what the car is telling you and shift the way it wants you to shift rather than the way you're used to doing it.
Just a suggestion.
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