gm_fan_boi

2/3 of my home pcs are more than 5 years old, all are reliable and performant for my purposes.

If they are self directed, yes.

Let's not forget all the senior citizens who rely on income from investments in fossil fuel companies, this includes most of the parents of the under 45 who like to say, "screw the oil companies"

They would probably argue S3 is a product targeted at sophisticated people, by virtue of knowing how S3 operates you are sophisticated.

GM declined to use a dry clutch DCT in their performance vehicles for this very reason. GM was able to anticipate this problem, you need to have a wet DCT to avoid these problems. When you have a dry clutch manual transmission the human leg compensates for the variability in the driving conditions that ford wants the computer to handle. A torque converter is much more reliable in these types of vehicles.