Did anyone else just never use the Autopilot?

Maybe it's just me being a KSP player, or perhaps it's just my ego, but I never really felt the need or desire to use the autopilot.

I genuinely believed that the autopilot only existed as a cheatcode for people who literally could not fly their ship or understand orbital mechanics

Having to fly to the planets could be considered busy work, but I always found it kinda fun

My absolute favorite thing to do was flying to the stranger. Because flying into its bubble completely negated your speed, I used to look at it and fly towards it at maximum throttle. By the end of the DLC, I had optimized the route to squeeze between 2 trees on Timber Hearth to get to the other side of the planet as quick as possible

Did anyone else play the game like this?