Agreed, it's a whole different game with the manual. The auto has its own challenges, but both the A8 and the A10, especially the latter, have gearing better suited for this exercise (the A8 has a chonky rpm drop from 4th to 5th that is "smoothed out" on the A10 with an extra inbetween gear ratio).
Also, on an auto even the first few "bang" WOT shifts won't drop your acceleration into the negative, and I don't think even the best NLS M6 operators can achieve that, however impressive their lack of fear holding the throttle at 99.6% is
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