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It's a good point, I think I'm somewhere in the middle.
I learned on my mom's MGB. I drove a Celica for years and then had a couple of different autos before getting back into a manual with the FR-S. Even when I was driving autos though, when I visited my folks I'd tool around in their Z3 or a BMW 330. Or I'd borrow my buddies old manual F-150 pickup, and climbing into any of those vehicles it was like riding a bike - not a moment's thought. Sure, they each had slightly different feels, but I was smooth in them all with no effort.
There is something noticeably different about the clutch in the FR-S compared to any other stick I've driven. Good, bad, or otherwise it's there - and five years in I still occasionally have starts I jokingly call "first time driver" starts! I'm not going to bother changing anything, but it's there. It's not because it's broken, or defective - but for some it might be enough to seek relief.
Maybe the lack of comment in more manual heavy cultures is less about the lack of difference and more about the fact that it's an expected difference like headlight stalk placement, or radio dials. It's a different car, the clutch feels different, who cares, just drive it?
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