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Horses for courses! I like to get into the guts of a thing, so I enjoy manual navigation. Getting into observing that way was not a conscious choice, I couldn't afford a GoTo scope so had to learn the manual way and found I liked it.
There are many nights when all I want to do is look at the highlights in the sky and I know that I can have a look at half a dozen of them (think M42/43, Omega C, 47Tuc, NGC2070 etc) before a go to scope has been aligned properly. I know as I had a little second hand go to scope for a while and it took at least 5 mins to set up each time assuming everything worked perfectly.
But as I said, horses for courses, to each their own.
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