My vision for the next 10-20 years is bleak for sports/fun cars.
Manual transmissions don't allow for automation of much of anything, so phasing them out in the name of performance to foster automation is happening.
Sports cars won't go away because they want to take them away entirely, but they'll become so innately expensive to own (i.e. insurance companies will charge premiums for non-autonomous cars as human operation is riskier than automated operation) that very few people will drive them anymore, companies won't have the justification to produce them any longer, and the species becomes endangered.
Cars like the Z don't fit Nissan's vision for an autonomous world. Standard emergency braking is just the next step of that vision.
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