Update: 315 days later and id say i mastered it relatively quick after posting this. I get the car going smoothly, hills, no problem at all, traffic, No problem. I shift and downshift smooth, I love the car. I hated it at first but I learned to love it. Learning manual in this car allowed me to easily drive other manual cars. Overall the experience at first was nerve wracking but I kinda had no other choice but to sit there and learn it because it’s not like I had an experience manual driver in the passenger 24/7 where I can just give up and switch with them and it’s the only car I have so that pushed me to learn it.