14 cars within 25 miles seems pretty good to me???

That’s plenty to choose from.

I like it in theory, but in practice the engine takes a full second or two to stabilize RPMs.

So in the manual the result is you either start to load the engine at really low RPMs when taking off right away from a dead stop- or you end up giving it more gas than necessary. In the end you get inconsistent first-gear starts and also probably bog the engine.

I disabled it.

I also don’t like that it can be inconsistent. On the rare occasion I turn it on, let’s say in a drive-through, it wont even turn off the engine half the time- either because the wheels are turned (steering pump), the AC (compressor) is on or some other mysterious reason.