Whenever I encounter the "Robb Report" I am reminded of an occasion in college when some friends and I noticed one of its issues on the newsstand in a grocery store. It came in a special plastic bag with an opaque rectangle printed over most of the cover, presumably to obscure the luxury products advertised therein from proles like us, but by pulling the plastic away from the cover we could clearly see that it was dominated by an image of some kind of miniature recreational submarine.

Since then it has been difficult for me to take anything about the Robb Report seriously. Maybe that's unfair of me.

Anyway, it would be weird if the uber wealthy didn't keep the stick shift around in some form or other, but on EVs it will be nothing but an affectation, like the way modern "sport" luxury cars pipe fake engine noise into the cabin. Just another way for folks who have too much money to waste some more of it.