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It seems like you're arguing that a better way of doing things is hard, therefore not worth doing, or that a century ago was the cutoff for deciding how we do transportation.

The way our stuff is laid out makes it difficult to live without a car. That doesn't make the car a necessity in the abstract when that layout and design is often the direct product of designing around cars in the first place. It makes the car a necessity in the specific system we have for many people.
"We can't do things differently because then it's harder to do things exactly the same" is a weak argument.

Spoken like an upper middle class person

Are you actually using your perception of someone else's economic class as an argument? When you're arguing in defense of car based suburban sprawl and buying groceries by the carload?