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Don't get this car in auto. It defeats the purpose.
Regardless of whether you find learning stick in this car to be an easy or difficult experience, eventually you will get it down and one day you'll be proud of your abilities.
This was my first MT car as well, and I was not a quick learner. Took a few hours to get the basics, a week or so to get reasonably smooth, about a month to get comfortable with hill starts, a few months to become perfectly smooth revmatching, and now it's been about a year and I'd say I'm reasonably good at heel-toe and double clutch. You should always be working on improving your abilities.
It helps to understand how the transmission works. That way you understand why certain techniques are needed rather than just blindly accepting them. It will also prevent you from developing bad habits that can shorten the lifetime of transmission components. For example if you want to get into gear from neutral at speed what should you do to relieve the strain on the synchro?
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