> Most people ... push the pedal when they want to go and they leave it to the car to accelerate at a reasonable speed when they do.

I'm going to need a source for that. There are literally tens of thousands of accelerator pedal types, with different hinges, different travel, different stiffness and different engines with different ECUs and different drive modes attached to them. There's no one default way to step on the gas that people would just pull out of muscle memory.