It will be OK to hold stationary with the brake while in gear would be my assumption.
The inclusion of the fluid torque converter (if that is what it is) should also mean that it is OK to use the 'creep' or accelerator to hold the car - unlike the DSG, for which the handbook advises against holding the car this way, to prevent overheating the clutch pack.
I like automatics for towing, but I do not regard DCTs/DSGs as having all the virtues of a proper auto - there must be many people whose habitual way of using an auto, acquired over years with a torque-converter-equipped gearbox, would damage or shorten the life of a DSG clutch pack. DSGs are also a pain to manoeuvre in a tight space, whatever anybody says.
I like the sound of the Mazda.
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