The Beech Sundowner was one of the aircraft I used to fly. It was a nice little plane to fly. I remember it had a big long manual flap handle and a taxi light in addition to landing lights. I enjoyed flying that aircraft.
My comparison to an aircraft equipped with manual flaps to one with electric would be akin to comparing a car with a manual transmission to one with an automatic.
You start pulling up on that flap handle, or dumping them all at once on rollout, you can feel the feedback the plane gives you much more quickly and pronounced than one equipped with electric flaps.