The Auto definitely has a mind of its own at times it seems. It's going to take some learning and adaptation on our part to get it to always do what you expect. I think especially coming from a manual before, some of my habits have made it less smooth. I think too much change in accelerator pedal position in mid-shift actually confuses it on upshifts, from my experiences so far.
You can get very jerky or very long delayed upshifts by messing with the gas pedal between the time you hit the shift paddle and the time the next gear engages. I mostly see this at the end of a hard acceleration when I'm trying to upshift to the next gear and drop the pedal back to coast at current speed. I'm still experimenting with mine and trying to learn how to get it to always act the way I want it to.
On the other hand, common operations like flooring the pedal while requesting a downshift, or downshifting for (reasonable, not too aggressive) engine braking seem to always work pretty flawlessly as expected.
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