If you are paying for it and you are caring for it, get what you want.
If you drive in stop-and-go traffic, you may eventually find the manual transmission to be annoying.
If you live in the suburbs or in the country, that is not a problem.
It is not necessarily a bad thing if your friends cannot drive your car, and it is probably less likely to be stolen as well. If your friends want you to teach them to drive a manual, that is a bad thing because they will trash your clutch.
I have been driving for 60 years and have owned ten cars. All but one were stick shift. My wife used to drive stick shift cars until she suffered a back injury at work, She still enjoys driving my stick shift BMW wagon occasionally…