Do cars do autos like trucks do? Where there not old school torque converter type autos as they have manual clutch set ups. The clutch and gear change is just done via hydraulics that’s ecu controlled the internals of the box are the same as a manual.
I had autos explained to me like this once on a course while we all laughed and said there crap and jerky. Imagine how many nerves muscles and thoughts it takes to smoothly engage a clutch or change gear. Then imagine having to program an ecu to control components to do the same job you do. Made sense thinking about it like that