I think it helps to have a nuanced opinion and make sure we don't spiral into an echo chamber. For my example, I've found that lefties are able to identify a lot of the right problems, it's just that they think gay space communism is the solution to it.
For instance, I completely agree that North American cities are really stupidly designed. The car-centric nature of them means you're stranded if your vehicle breaks down. The fact that you have to go into debt to buy this big stupid box to navigate your own city is ridiculous in the first place.
But when it comes to their solutions for this they can't separate their stupid idpol nonsense from it. My local city government keeps talking about "equitable solutions" to traffic and pedestrian fatalities. Typical "world ending, women most affected" type stuff.
Plus they keep droning on about high density housing which absolutely no one wants to live in. in their utopia we'd all live in depressing Soviet-style block apartments.
The solution to cities is not to make cities walkable. The solution to cities is to get rid of them. Cities encourage anti-social and anti-natalist behavior due to crowding. As much as the left hates suburbia, that level of density is 1000x better than urban densities on the human psyche.
The pro-density anti-car crowd have got to be the biggest retards in the world, and it pisses me off to no end how much power they hold over most city planning departments now.
I'm not sure if I'm more baffled by the ones that actually want to live that way, or the ones who think it's the way to make housing more affordable (despite absolutely zero real-world examples of that ever happening anywhere it's been tried).
A fun question to ask city-dwelling friends is how many of their neighbors they know. Not even friends with, just know basic info like their names and jobs. Unsurprisingly, they say one or two tops, despite living near dozens of people. Most say none. A neighbor to them is something vague like "guy who plays guitar at 6 in the morning."
I think the cultural push to reframe suburbia as lame, boring, cookie-cutter, and fake that started gaining steam in the 90s was manufactured specifically because suburbia has a lot of strengths. All those things that an angry 17yo who just wants to be edgy and different thinks are stupid; trick or treating, block BBQs and yard sales, neighborhood Christmas light contests, big 4th of July parties and multiple families setting off fireworks in the street, Girl Scouts selling cookies door to door, young boys mowing lawns or shoveling snow for their first taste of real work for pay, etc. Those are all great things that build community and social cohesion. They also can only really happen in a demographically homogenous area. Painting all that as stupid and boring stuff fuddy duddy dads and 'soccer moms' like was a deliberate attempt to undermine them, and it worked. Now even in a lot of suburban areas, neighborhoods don't do that stuff anymore and we're all worse off for it.
There is also the poison pill of demographic diversity that was deliberately force fed into many suburban neighborhoods, causing crime and anti-social behavior to skyrocket, which caused social trust to plumet, and a lot of parents who still live in suburbs won't let their kids do the exact same things they were doing in similar neighborhoods 15-20 years ago. No more kids waiting for the bus by themselves or riding bikes to school, playing outside til the streetlights come on, boys just finding a patch of woods near the neighborhood and getting lost playing army in them every day all summer, no more trusting your neighbor with a key to your house just in case, or getting the high school girl 4 houses down to babysit. Most people don't even speak to their neighbors anymore.
Suburbia used to be one of our real greatest strengths, and it was destroyed on purpose because it was.
European cities were fine for over a millenia. What changed? Modernism, created by the tiny hats.
European cities were still dirty and full of anti-social dipshits over those millennia. They just had the benefit of being a defense against invading forces. Cities don't even provide that now.