5% is the important number. Even the industry association claims it's around 800,000 jobs, which is big, to be sure ( https://www.gtai.de/resource/blob/64100/8fc3cff5774c2ec699172cd823a0ec0e/20220711_IO_Automotive_WEB.pdf), but around 11% of total manufacturing employment (7.5 million).
I agree...