Ok let’s flip this to cherry pick my example.

Don’t need a car most of life, get to 40 and upskill and become a software engineer. Job market is terrible due to saturation and I suck at interviews so can only take a job 40 miles away from home.

No problem.exe. I can take 2.5-3 hour commute each way 5 days a week.

Fast forward a few months and I’m just dead on my feet, do nothing but go to work come home goto bed get up and repeat.

Decide this can’t continue. Can’t afford to move to the bougie town where I work so decide I need a car finally.

Save 12-15 hours per week and it’s not too much more expensive than taking a Metrolink and a train to work with 30 mins of walking too. Plus all the meals you need to eat out of the house when you’re out for 14 hours in a day.

On my days off I’ll take the tram 20 miles each way to go rock climbing but some people actually do need cars and they shouldn’t be made to feel bad for it.