Peugeot 208 allure Auto - awful or just a fault?

A family member recent bought a Peugeot Auto 1.4 Diesel 2014 year, She basically is the type of person who don't need a car and is such a bad driver that should not be on the road to begin with, knows zero about cars. What the car cost would keep her in taxis for at least 5 years.

Anyway I drove it myself yesterday and can only just describe it as a pig of a car, I have driven many different cars and it had to be the worst autobox ever, slow, slow to respond, almost labouring, but most critically and dangerously for this woman is it was not behaving like an auto. I parked it on what was quiet a steep hill and the car ran forward when I had it in reverse and similarly again it ran back when it should have held facing uphill on the hill, I had to use my left leg on the footbrake, seriously rev it up and release simultaneously to get the car to take off, not standard automatic procedures. The handbrake was ineffective. It does not have have a standard P-N-D type gearbox and it seems the advice is to park it in Neutral with the handbrake on, great for it to roll away. I have advised the lady to sell it and buy something proper. She paid nearly €9k for this thing.