Shift kits.. do you really need one????

Ahhhhhh (sigh) The thread topic was a rhetorical question...

Most of what you got was rhetorical answer, lol

Without deciding who knows what and whether the previous posts are correct or not: Most of this is not fully understood unless you read and understand basic hydraulic function, and have a book (the allpar article was,,, lacking) or FSM with the TFlite description of operation in it.