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Muscles posted...

Even the best public transportation is inferior to a personal vehicle so not sure why people care so much about it

Because those people understand that there's a world outside of their personal best interests.

Muscles posted...

you still aren't getting the convenience and freedom that personal transportation brings and I would hate to see a world without personal vehicles at all

This always comes up whenever the notion of not designing cities around cars comes up, and it's always bullshit. Nobody is suggesting the complete abolition of personal vehicles. Everybody (that actually wants to improve the situation) is just suggesting redesigning cities so that a personal vehicle isn't mandatory. Heck, these redesigns generally actually make the experience of driving better (even without considering any of the broader benefits), by virtue of having more intuitive infrastructure, fewer points of conflict, and fewer cars on the road because people routinely choose viable alternatives when they actually exist.

There are quite a few city planning advocacy youtube channels out there, so you can delve into those if you want more details, but this video in particular does a pretty good job of explaining how focusing on alternative transportation infrastructure in the Netherlands has also resulted in fantastic driving infrastructure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8RRE2rDw4k

Thinking about it as a zero-sum game is incorrect. Everybody stands to benefit from designing cities that make it easier to get around, even the people that just want to keep using their personal car for most purposes.