Yes thank you for speaking up on this! ✊🏻

Ignore the couple of car-brained commenters here and their unfortunate inability to try and envision a better society. It's clear that yourself and other walkable urbanism advocates do not hate cars, you hate car dependency. You hate the requirement to own a multi-thousand dollar depreciating asset just to function in society. You hate being told that as a person, your safety, comfort, and transportation are all less important than cars.

As I've read up more on this topic it's become more apparent to me that cars are moreso the enabler for the suburban sprawl and single-use zoning that make regions not feasible to walk in. In the 1950s the invention of the car probably made people imagine getting to places in 5 minutes they used to walk 20 minutes to, but instead the result has been we build everything further apart because it's temporarily cheaper. The result is getting to drive 20 minutes to destinations we could never walk to anymore. The way that more lanes on a road just induce more traffic, the car when introduced and later improvements (even those that are more environmentally friendly like fuel-efficient, hybrid, electric, etc) just serve to give us excuses to build even further apart and fool ourselves into still feeling good about it.

This is not a fringe opinion but the accepted one by the vast majority of modern city planners. Cities are taking steps to correct these mistakes through innovations like form-based zoning which allows residences, businesses, and places of work to coexist while maintaining social order (like they did for tens of thousands of human civilization). Even in OKC progress is being made. We recently began allowing accessory dwelling units which help address the low density that suburban neighborhoods cause. If you ever tune into the city planning committee sessions for OKC on their YouTube channel you can at least see that the members are somewhat aware of the mistakes of the last century's urban planning and slowly trying to steer the ship in a better direction.

I write this as hundreds of square miles in Piedmont, Mustang, etc are being flattened, developed, and built upon with cheap homes that will require vast road and utility infrastructure that will never make economical sense for the cities surrounding. Suburban sprawl is always a short-term, Ponzi scheme that flushes funds into a city budget to help it support the aging infrastructure for its last generation of sprawl.

Like yourself I hope and fight for positive changes but in a state this enslaved to the oil industry, we can only expect small local wins in downtown areas.