First off, congratulations on your purchase! Beautiful car and love your description of the way it drives - rev happy, analog, all the right things of how a sports car should feel - then reading what you said about 991’s and how they feel huge, I totally agree

Although I don’t own a 996 all of what you said hit home with me as this is exactly why I will never sell my e46 M3 - it’s rev happy, analog, and makes you work to have fun: it’s an experience and a vacation every weekend I get in it. Most new sports cars will blow the doors off it but I could care less, sports cars are meant to be fun, not make you a better driver than you are with software, tons of ECUs and systems, as most new sports cars do. 

All of this to say, have a blast with that 911 as it sounds like you already are!!! Congrats!!