What are you even talking about. I said "Being trapped and anxious makes people miserable" in response to your "Having to drive everywhere makes people misserable." It's not the need to drive that sucks it's the circumstances of the drive that suck. Being stuck in traffic is a very different experience than an oceanside highway with nobody around. But that's only half the point because you're ignoring the context of my attention span statement, which was with respect to the "offloading cognitive costs" point. I don't think offloading cognitive costs is a good thing in most circumstances, you should be aware of what you're doing and where you are. It gets complicated with anxiety and hyperawareness and such wherein passive existence is overwhelming (and this is one of the things I was flagging as a "good reason to choose mass transit")

The unwillingness to be engaged with the task of driving a car for a few hours is not a good reason, it’s a symptom of a totally cooked attention span

If you choose a slower, more expensive way to get somewhere because you can't put your phone down and focus on the task of getting from point A to B for four hours, and it isn't due to mental fatigue or a disorder like ADHD, then I think it's wasteful and reflects poorly on your character.

A car is not freedom. And the absence of a car is not being trapped.

Here are more things you pretended I said because people in this community are so used to fighting caricatures of car culture. Calling me a bad faith commenter.