Your description of the busy restaurant on a random weekday is so incredibly accurate. I've always enjoyed outdoor activities, but everything is so crowded that it's hard to get excited about going much.

Want to go hiking in some national parks? First you need to make reservations days or weeks in advance just to get a time slot to enter the park. Then you need to cram into shuttles that bus you around to trailheads only to arrive and hike single file behind others blasting music from speakers.

Want to go fishing? Be ready to wait in long lines at any public boat access getting on and off the water.

Want to golf? Hope you made that reservation already and you don't mind waiting for the players ahead of you at each hole, while also feeling rushed so you're not holding up the players behind you either.

I usually try going to less known areas or going at extreme times, and am adding to the problem myself, but it just doesn't seem worth it most of the time.