If you've spent more than five minutes on motorcycle social media lately, you've probably seen the comments. Every time a manufacturer announces an automatic transmission, a certain corner of the internet reacts as if someone just proposed banning manual gearboxes altogether. The outrage is usually immediate, predictable, and completely disconnected from reality.
Because, despite all the doom and gloom, manual motorcycles still vastly outnumber automatic ones, and nobody is forcing anyone to buy anything they don't want.
