Americans complain about the lack of affordable cars, but can't be bothered to buy anything with less than 4 doors and AWD and 20 inch wheels. So good luck to these guys.
In my experience, cranks are relatively complicated mechanical linkages, failed quite regularly and were sometimes not easy to repair.
OTOH, I've never seen an electronic opener fail since the 80's. Yes, sometimes they don't have the torque to open a window when it's iced closed, but that's an advantage, not a disadvantage -- the ability to put a lot of torque on a manual opener was the cause of many failures.
A couple of articles on the Slate have also pointed out that electric openers are cheaper than manual ones.
Absolutely. Only one vehicle here has electric windows but that car was given to us. The other 6 vehicles are hand crank.
Rather than remembering the exact right amount of pressure for that mode on the switch
That depends a bit on models - there are various cars you can buy that don't have various modes of pressure - there's only a single mode, and the window stops moving when you let go of the switch.