FLL: Welcome to the 21st Century!
No matter how good you may think FWD is, all wheel drive is better. You only have to get stuck once to wish you had it.
Another thing to consider is resale. It seems you are sold on a standard transmission but many drivers cannot drive one. That limits your potential market and will reduce what a dealer would offer you on a trade in because of the limited desirability.
Off topic: I actually saw a video of a carjacking in Chicago (218 carjackings in January 2021) and the four young fellows that ripped the driver out of the car jumped in, saw it was a stick, and jumped back out because they couldn't drive one. So there's that: You could feel more secure about not being carjacked on your daily drive from Meredith to the Plymouth WalMart.
CD's have become old school now. But you can get a SanDisk 32GB Cruzer USB Flash Drive on Amazon for about $10. Most new cars have slots that they will fit in and they will hold thousands of songs.
Here is where it gets good: You can go to the library (if you have any free time)
and take out CD's, bring them home, and using your computer put the music on your flash drive and then insert that into the slot in your new ride. You can do that for free, and we know how you love free stuff!