Some countries also just completely shun automatic transmissions because... Well, because.
I'm looking at you, Norway. No, "Manual transmission has better handling on snow" is not a reason I'm prepared to accept.
*lives in Wisconsin, Winter lasts for 5 months, automatic cars everywhere*
I’ve was fun today though. It’s been icy for about a month in my apartment building’s parking lot, not really slippy until it rained overnight, so now there’s nice pleasant plain ground prior to an inch thick vista of ice which is very wet and very slippy
The residential road prior to my driveway also has two... I guess rails? of clean ground between the thick ice, and then it’s like driving over rocks getting into the driveway because all that ice is partially melted in spots and is consequently very uneven, prior to parking on the death trap vista you have to park on.