CVT's are interesting to drive hard. Revs stay at the peak of the power band the whole time... Sadly they're notoriously weak and loose a ton of power.
A sequential and tiptronic aren't the same. Not sure if the user was just speaking in general of non H-pattern xmsns or what? If I was building a drag car I'd like to have a dogbox, sequential for track use, and H pattern manual for everyday back woods driving.