Lexus went the extra bit to ensure that the driving experience match the cars good looks. It's a good thing when manufacturers make a car more enjoyable to drive.
To each their own. My feeling is that the noise, vibration and abruptness of shifting a transmission gets in the way of my enjoyment of driving, but that's me talking after tens of thousands km of quiet and fun electric vehicle driving.
One of my favourite cars was my 1991 Chevy Beretta GTZ with a getrag 5 speed mated to the QUAD4HO 190HP 2.3L engine with 7400RPM redline. Those were the days, the car sounded amazing, and the driving experience was thrilling on winding roads when the car was in second gear above 4800 RPM when the second set of cam lobes opened up fully.
Those days are gone, I have new memories now, and they include leaving Porsche Turbo SUV's ten car lengths behind in the first two seconds away from a light like I did yesterday (and he deliberately changed lanes to line up beside me at the light).
I get why sports cars need this tech, but don't for the life understand the amount of technology being thrown at the internal combustion engine and drive trains of SUV's and the like when the future is so clearly in electric motors and batteries.