But it is a strong argument to people to take the initiative to live where transit is feasible rather than live where it's not and complain about it.
I live a 10 minute bike ride from a park-and-ride bus stop where I have several bus line options to get to work, my bike+bus commute is faster than my driving commute because the bus takes the express lanes (and can legally drive on road shoulders in some places). I do a full bike commute some days, but it takes about twice as long by bike as it does by bike+bus, so I don't do it all the time. If I didn't want to bike to the bus, there's a local bus that runs a block away from my house that I could take to the park and ride.
But I didn't end up with this transit accessible commute by accident, I purposely chose where I live so I could take transit.
That only works for people who already want to take the bus.
If you like your car and you don't like buses, why would you pay any attention to the buses when choosing where to live?
You don't win people over by saying they need to go out of their way to come over to your side, you win people over by showing how good your alternative is.
Buses are great if you're poor, but otherwise they're very inconvenient everywhere I've ever lived.
But I'm already working on it, actually. Rentable covered trikes and quadricycles with electric motors and storage. Slim enough to fit two to three units per road lane. Capable of multiple trips across town up steep hills before needing to be recharged, and remaining light enough to pedal (the default mode being lightly assisted power). Tow trailers and rear sidecars are an option, too.
I mean, you could also claim bicycles are obsolete and why not use scooters and motorcycles, but they have different use cases.
Cars are two-ton balls of complexity that last decades, operate in any environment and require mostly non-renewable energy. They've very costly, they take up a lot of room, they're expensive and complicated to maintain, and they're dangerous enough that you can't operate one without a license and we need laws and officers to regulate and police their use.
My vehicle is basically a four wheeled electric bicycle with a plastic cover. These already exist in many places with slightly different design. They've just never been designed specifically with dense urban transportation in mind.
Also, they're not intended to replace public transit. You can not get more efficient than a train, light rail or a bus. My vehicle is intended to provide the kind of personal transportation that a car is used for in cities while allowing for denser and more efficient transportation while also being safer and pollute less, to say nothing of parking, and cost of ownership.
Which is a sensible thing to do if the design parameters for transport that is limited to an urban region are significantly different from that of the typical car.
Welcome to planet earth. It doesn't revolve around you.