Two words: Column shift. The console shift is in the way, and the rotary is just plain stupid. Wife's '19 Expy has the rotary, my '20 F150 has a column shift, and my '12 5.0 GT is a 6-speed manual. It does not matter which truck I'm driving, the first time I go to put it in reverse on any given trip, I reach for the wrong location. Zero problems with the Mustang, but then again the 3-pedal thing and seating position helps muscle memory. There is ZERO reason ergonomically for the rotary dial to be where it is, and while it's slightly better than the console shift (in that it doesn't stick up way into the middle of everything) functionally it's stupid. At least they're both better than the GM 'buttons/toggles'. Push, pull, push? Design on those things seems arbitrary at best, and capricious at worst.
Something like 80% of vehicles in Europe are manual shift, which is a built-in forcing function to keep people off their phones. Between that and stricter licensing protocols, their crash numbers look better than ours. Last stats I saw had US manual vehicle sales at ~1%, and only 18% of Americans can even drive one anymore. And many of those are aging out of the driving population way faster than they're being replaced...
And don't even get me started on the whole "it automatically shifts to park" thing.