Racing in Germany....

I race with a bunch of very quick cars using column shifters. It’s a big change and may not be for you, but most run a reverse manual valve body. The worst you can do is go 1st to third and they do it a bunch still. That and They “try” and brace their extra fingers on the dash pad if they can reach it. Helps stabilize the hand a bit. Console shift for me and I would do the third to neutral deal enough that under the console I made a lock out. Open the ash tray and theres a lever to unlock 3rd to neutral. You might look at making a physical lock on the column.