Do you ever drive your Yeti DSG manually?

In short yes!

I have a 1.2 Yeti and love and hate the 7 speed DSG in equal measure.

For driving around town or "sensibly" it is perfect. Bury the throttle and it is near perfect too with or without sport mode selected. "Pressing on" at legal speeds is normally no problem either.

Where I have an issue is between that "sensible" level and "pressing on". The problem shows on slight inclines or reasonably sharp bends.

Leaving a roundabout with a slight uphill gradient and accelerating modestly the car will change up from say 3rd to 4th causing the rate of acceleration to drop. To maintain acceleration more throttle is needed but you have to virtually bury the throttle before a down change occurs and then you are off like a scolded cat which is not the effect sought.

Approach a corner at 55 mph in 7th gear and the box only changes down when you are past the apex and even then only to 6th when 5th or even 4th would be more appropriate.

The solution of course is to flick the lever left and take command which I do quite often these days.

Sport mode I sometimes use when leaving a particularly challenging junction into a fast moving flow of traffic.

And I use manual all of the time when I am towing my caravan! It become a 5 speed box then in reality.

Of course the solution to my problem is probably a 1.4 DSG Yeti, all I've got to do is wait for Skoda to build one...

ps The delay between brake off and throttle on is whole other can of worms and VW/Skoda need stringing up for that one.