F1 is backing off on tech but mainly because of the cost of it and it getting close to reducing the driver to a passenger!

ZeroShift fits inside F1 gearboxes which means that genuine F1 tech can be streetable. Something F1 is already doing is using regs to force longer life in the components and in so doing outlawing things like sacrificial qualifier engines and gearboxes. Allegedly a team built a sacrificial gearbox that managed a one-shot qualifying run without oil in it because oil drag cost a few BHP.

F1 components in the richer teams have very low service lives - like a couple of hundred kilometres for a 3rd gear (which equates to about 30km actually driving in that gear and 170km idling). The parts are minimum in the extreme and that's why, without ballast, the whole car doesn't weigh much more than a couple of burger enthusiasts.

I don't see them returning to clutch pedals when clutch pedals are gradually being dialled out of road cars. I also don't see them going back to stick shifts because of the 'risks' (go figure) of steering one-handed and shifting. Paddles (or similar) are here to stay. The driver rather than an ECU will be in complete charge of activating the clutch and the shifts.

Current or future regs suit ZeroShift and as cost/safety/link-to-showroom become more of an issue, ZeroShift is even more compelling.