Does anyone else's Dodge feel completely different after a proper transmission s

okay so i need to share this because i genuinely did not expect this much of a difference and i'm still kind of processing it a few days later. my durango has been driving fine for the most part over the past year, nothing that ever threw a warning light or anything dramatic, but if i'm being honest with myself the shifts had gotten noticeably less smooth over time, this sort of gradual thing where you don't really notice it happening day to day because you're the one driving it constantly, but looking back there was definitely a slight hesitation creeping in between gears that i'd just kind of accepted as normal without really questioning it. my wife actually pointed it out first when she drove it for the first time in a while, said it felt kind of jerky compared to how she remembered it, which honestly stung a little because i'd been driving it every single day and hadn't noticed how much it had actually changed since i was too used to the gradual decline. anyway that comment stuck with me enough that i finally decided to stop putting off getting it looked at, and a friend at work who's had multiple dodges over the years told me to check out this dodge gearbox repair service in sharjah since he'd had his own charger serviced there a while back and said they actually diagnosed things properly instead of just doing a generic fluid change and sending you on your way. so i took it in, they ran a full diagnostic, found the fluid was more degraded than it should've been for the mileage and also did some kind of adaptation reset alongside the service, and honestly driving it home afterward felt like driving a completely different car, the shifts are noticeably smoother now, no more of that hesitation i'd basically trained myself to ignore over time. what really got me thinking though is how easy it is to just adapt to a car slowly getting worse without realizing it, like if my wife hadn't said anything i probably would've just kept driving it exactly like that for who knows how much longer, genuinely believing that was just how the car drove now. makes me wonder how many people are out there right now driving around with a transmission that's quietly degrading and they have no idea because there's no dramatic moment that forces them to notice, it's just this slow creeping change that becomes the new normal without anyone really registering it as a problem. anyone else had that experience where someone else driving your car pointed out something you'd completely stopped noticing yourself, and did getting it actually serviced end up making as big a difference as it did for me, because right now i'm kind of kicking myself for not getting this looked at months earlier instead of just accepting the slow decline as normal wear and tear that i figured every car eventually goes through anyway.