Jokes on you, some manual cars also require the brake to be pressed to start them.

You know I think your mistake here was buying a Nissan, not a car with push button start

I used to have a 92 Honda accord. The car was built on par with Toyota as far as reliability. With that said though, there was one time it wouldn't start. Push started it, it worked,, but when starting- the problem persisted. Went to a shop to diagnose it. Turns out manual cars normally use a clutch switch to tell if you have the clutch pressed to start the car. There is a little rubber standoff on it to dampen the clutch pedal coming back up and hitting it, making it last longer. The little rubber bit fell out and got lodged making the switch not disengage. It was a 10 cent part that cost me an hour of diagnostic time (the minimum). So yes, manual cars still have an equivalent problem to what you had.

Clearly the CVT is the real villain here.

Your mistake was buying a nissan

Better that than having people ram into you because you have no brake lights