SRM causes the car to hold revs after you put the clutch in.

I can't say that it made shifting 'easier' but it did make it 'more natural'.

As for the OP, I'm really confused as to what he's talking about.

Maybe you could post some step-by-step instructions to reproduce the issue?

ie

1) Clutch in
2) Lift off gas
3) Shift down
4) Clutch out


If SRM is enabled, you literally clutch in, downshift, clutch out. It should be fast enough to get the revs where they need to be without any real harshness assuming you're not doing a 2-1 downshift or something crazy.

And as others have said, heavy flywheel + drive by wire and the additional 250-500ms delay that ETC causes makes for a pretty laggy situation that can be helped a little with a custom tune.