I'm not a kid exactly, I'm 23. I don't have a tendency to rat on cars I don't own, so I drove my friend's automatic Passat 1.8T and test drove an automatic WRX like I would drive a normal car, and not hold down two pedals at once. And my whole point this whole time is the 2nd to last Con "The car will have a laggy feeling" so it looks like you agree after all. I also agree with the rest of your list, so maybe we'll just leave it at that.

I didn't mean for this to be a pissing contest, and I'm glad to be enlightened about how people drive automatics in races. But I was persistent in my posts because in my own personal experience that laggy feeling really annoyed me about turbo automatics. Again, my apologies.