That was my fear when I was starting to drive after about 10 years of almost no driving. Somehow it wasn't a problem save for few cars that needed a longer time to get accustomed to or outright some special handling.
@ljs stalls are a situation where start-stop engine is a very nice thing to have, it stalls, you depress the clutch and voila, it's running again! 😀
I have far less mileage (never owned a car, then that 10 y gap) thus my uncertainty and then a pleasant surprise. Driving diverse cars also helped, it makes one feel the car better and adapt to its actual behaviour as opposed to say learning the position where the clutch starts biting.
@ljs and riding a bike also helped, it keeps current the skill of reading the signs, it makes one "read the road" better (because a non-danger for a car driver is a danger for pedalling driver) and last but not least, the experience of being honked just for driving through some narrow stretch of the road makes one quite indifferent to some impatient honking arsehole when I get stalled in a car that requires full restart to get moving again.
@ljs Most of my honking in recent years was unintentional with car stationary when pulling my backpack from front passenger seat. 😜
I think that the only honks I used when moving were for some arsehole on motorway when he changed lanes right in front of me and making me brake a second time and another for some very smart truck driver who didn't bother to got into the slow vehicles lane when climbing a hill at 60-70 km/h (he did after I honked when passing his cab) .