I really appreciate the feedback. I would love to use sport mode, but for my driving style, it is way too aggressive and overkill for daily driving. I can see where it would be extremely fun, but not a solution for me.
As for skipping gears, here are my thoughts. If having 10 gears creates issues with extra heat and wear due to all of the shifting, then I honestly would have preferred an 8 speed gearbox with what I will call naturally spaced gearing. I have first gear revving higher than I would like so it can skip second gear, third gear doing the same thing so it can skip fourth, and for some strange reason, fifth gear kind of doing the same thing even though it doesn't need to do so to skip a gear. Seventh through tenth shift wonderfully. With ten gears, I definitely think skipping gears can be done and makes sense, but the way the transmission is programmed, it just doesn't do it very smoothly. For example, from my perspective, unless you come to a complete stop, the transmission should never try to use first unless you are really getting into the gas. If I am at a slow roll, my truck will downshift to first and then quickly go to third when shifting into second then third would have been much smoother. I'm sure they will make things better, so I am just patiently waiting. Until then, the transmission programming leaves a lot to be desired from my perspective.
