What do you love about your Mirage?

I have a 2018 Mirage ES manual and I love it for reasons I can't quite put my fingers on. The car is for a lack of better words, glacially slow, but I suppose the simplicity of it is somehow charming. It is also the car I learned to drive manual on and I often prefer driving it even more than modern automatics with lots of HP. What do love about yours?