I bet they'll eventually make electric cars with manual gearboxes and gearing to simulate this experience in an EV. You can already do this on your own with things like thr Ford EV crate motor that you can just bolt in any old car.
Along these lines, they already virtual gearboxes in China for license exams as fleets got electrified but the rules require passing with a manual transmission for a full license. Gear shifts and crucially, stalling all simulated with software. The electric motor, with its infinite torque, doesn't need real hardware gearboxes.
That's exactly it, lots of people grew up with it and enjoy the skill of it.
I just came back from Monterrey Motorsports Week where lots of rich old guys race many decades old race cars around the track. Again, inferior in every way to a modern car yet its a thing, a big thing.
