Yup, nailed it.
In most cars it makes sod all difference really, but there are a few where the red line is stupidly far beyond where the power output drops quite a lot. MX5 and the M235i Racing come to mind... Even in those cars though, it's probably not a dramatic difference in speed/laptime but one advantage of "correct" shifts in them is lower fuel consumption, because of the way AC calculates fuel (just RPM*throttlefraction*carconstant).
Yup, I relied heavily on Sidekick myself. It fails (silently) for quite a few cars (mostly Kunos) which have bogus power curves in the UI JSON files which it uses. That's about the only time that I miss having CM, which can rebuild those files.
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