Disclaimer: I wasn't sure whether this post belonged to the DSG thread and if so, please move it.

As the thread title says, everytime I drive in D mode I can't help but feel that I'm doing some long term engine damage by driving it underpowered.

Hitting 6th gear at 60km/hr sitting at ~1300-~1500 rpm just doesn't feel right.

For the first 1000km I've driven in a combination of S/Manual mode to avoid this issue. Even the manual mentions not to drive the engine underpowered during the run-in period, yet they go and put stupid programming on D mode.