Yeah it didn't help that I came from manuals my entire life, and it was my first automatic, but the tranny in the 2018+ S4/S5's is auto only and just plain brutal imho. The A5/A4 gets the Audi DSG, but they put the ZF with torque converter in the S series. The irony is that at low speeds, the A series actually feels more responsive and predictable than the S series. All my loaners have been A4/A5's, and I actually enjoyed them more for city driving than my S5. You hit the pedal and they actually accelerate in a linear fashion. Slow down to a near stop in my S5 and accelerate, and you may get throttle, or you may just get what feels like accelerating from a stop in 2nd gear. Audi really fucked up that tranny imho, though it's one of those hotly debated topics on the Audi forum.