Sport Design Gear Shifter Upgrade for Porsche Panamera (971) 2017–2024

Does any of this sound familiar?

You picked up your Panamera and it came with the standard shifter — now every time you get in you wish it had the sport design knob like the higher-spec models.
Your dealer quoted you close to $2,000 to retrofit the sport shifter through official channels, and that was before labour.
You've seen the PDK sport design shifter in a friend's Panamera Turbo and yours feels noticeably cheaper by comparison.
You upgraded other parts of your interior but the stock gear selector still lets the whole cabin down.
You found the part online but weren't sure if it would actually code correctly to your car without a dealer visit.

For all panamera 2017 to current