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You're never too old to adapt, but why should you.
Just because a maker decides that from now on their cars will have a toy too many doesn't mean we have to lump it and accept it, nodding sagely that they know whats best for us...absolute arrogance, we are the customer but they decide what we shall have, not on your nelly.
In practice auto parking brakes work quite well, very useful for people who can't manage clutch control, hill starts etc.
I don't want electric parking brakes partly because if i choose a manual car its because i want to drive it, and i will have chosen the manual version for a reason, usually simplicity and cost to buy run and maintain, putting a EPB system that has proved not particularly reliable and expensive to repair once (only 3 year in VW's case) warranty expires is not what i would have bought the car for in the first place.
If i have an auto box it will be a proper preferably torque converter auto (or good CVT) not one of Satans designs, with a good auto box adequate creep means the parking brake will only get used when i actually park the car, at all other times even on the steepest hills said creep will take care of any tendency to roll back, so again an EPB not required or wanted...thats quite apart from smooth driving pleasure and infinite low speed control that real auto boxes offer and new kids on the block don't.
If you don't want an EPB Judesman don't have one, there's lots of alternative very good modern estates to choose from the usual makes, but you could do worse than have a butchers at Toyotas latest Auris estate, that has a real handbrake in the usual place, you might find the dealers a breath of fresh air too.
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