I gotta say, not a decision I personally understand, but I did daily a track-suspension Silvia for a few years there, so I suppose I'm used to a different level of utility. But it's worth noting my daily is back to being a Honda Accord-- It does make for good utility and comfort, even if it's quite old now.
I honestly think you did yourself a disservice not spending more time getting used to the FR handling model-- you say the Civic has "better feel", but after lots of FWD cars, you jumped into a RWD one only very briefly. Takes a lot longer than a month to learn these things!
Either way, thanks for coming along. And taking the "new car premium" off a car for someone who wants to stay.