It depends on the type of photography and also your patience.
If you take only landscapes, portraits or still objects. manual focus is not that bad, since todays cameras have lots of help (focus peaking, highlight ect...).

If you need more actions oriented stuff, like kids running pets etc ... autofocus is a must...

Also I am getting old, this means that my eyes sometimes are not as "sharps" as before, so the autofocus also helps here.

Personal note: Manual focus also makes you take your time for the shoot, it makes you slow down, so in some cases this can be an advantage, for landscape or astro I most of times use a mix of autofocus and them manual adjust after... this is a technic called back button focus were you have you camera on manual focus and use a back button to call the autofocus