Eurofags have been manual doing it for ages and that seemed fine. Starting a warm engine with plenty oil all over, shouldn't be a problem. Starters are different, too, with clutches. I don't like them for the unpredictable nature of starting from a stop in traffic, and it has an immeasurably small, if any, gas mileage improvement. But, I doubt it's doing much extra harm to the engines.
Eurofags have been manual doing it for ages and that seemed fine. Starting a warm engine with plenty oil all over, shouldn't be a problem. Starters are different, too, with clutches. I don't like them for the unpredictable nature of starting from a stop in traffic, and it has an immeasurably small, if any, gas mileage improvement. But, I doubt it's doing much extra harm to the engines.