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Countless eh?
Been wrenching 15 years in a place with significant hills, and I've had the displeasure of dealing with a lot of commercial pickups that live their whole lives with a trailer pinned up their asses, we've even got a customer that has nothing but high mileage 20 year old shitboxes hauling asphalt/pressure wash trailers. Everything is always held by the parking pawl here because ununsed on automatics, the parking brake linings literally fall off of the shoes from rust at a truck's 4th year in service, levers jam and cables rust off and drag on the ground.
"Pawl 4 lyfe" lifestyle if you will.
Park is the last thing that works. When everything's falling apart, when two or 3 cylinder are missing, gears slipping, wheels are almost falling off and you can see the road under your feet while driving, Park is the last thing that still works right. Never have I once seen, or heard tale of a sticky park, and that is despite knowing psychopaths who throw it in P before they're stopped and bring it to a violent, ratcheting halt.
Keep in mind, I'm not saying to not use the parking brake on an auto, in fact I advocate for it, but if someone doesn't want to, it's not a worry. The likelyhood that they'll have an issue from not using it is likely less than being struck by lightning. About 2000 people die by lighting strike every year, it happens, but you're better off worrying about something else, like the recipe of for big mac sauce, or the wear life of your broom bristles.
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