This whole debate about whether the right decision was made to not offer a manual transmission on the V6 is absolutely laughable. The market has spoken and the absurdly overwhelming response is that car buyers in North America do not want manual transmissions. Even in Europe, manual transmissions are being replaced. By every objective measure, the automatic transmissions today are better -- they offer better performance and they are easier and more convenient to use.
I have been driving for over 30 years and have owned a lot of cars, but I've never owned an automatic. I love driving a manual transmission car, love it! But I am a dinosaur. I still use a blackberry with a keyboard (it is a work phone). Nobody will ever convince me that a touch screen can offer the same feel or accuracy of my keyboard, but there isn't a phone maker in the world who wants to go back to a physical keyboard. But, if a top end phone manufacturer found a way to make a killer phone with a physical keyboard, my heart tells me that it would be a huge hit for business users, like me, who send 200+ emails/texts per day. (Imagine the new Iphone or the S9 with a keyboard... wouldn't it be great?!) But my brain knows that the 12 people in the world who still love physical keyboards would be attracted to the phone and that we'd probably each buy one, but it wouldn't be profitable and it wouldn't change the buying patterns of the rest of the world who have grown accustomed to the virtual keyboard.
So waive your blackberries. Hold your typewriters high. Screw in those incandescent light bulbs. Turn on those CRT TVs with their perfect blacks. Yell at those clouds, old men, and tilt at those windmills. Maybe history will reverse itself this time. Or, maybe you should just buy a car that you like and if a manual transmission is the be all and end all, buy the car the manual transmission you like the most and accept the car that surrounds it.
From a finance perspective, I think it is crazy that Genesis put the money into developing a manual version, but I'm very happy they did. I'm seriously considering one. My other half loves what she's seen of the car, but she wants a car with AWD and she doesn't get the love of manual transmissions or LSDs or RWD. Then again, she's not an enthusiast and it is unlikely that I would buy another car that she can't drive...