Look, I hate sprawl. It's physically revolting. Since I was a little kid I would always feel my whole body relax as soon as a skyscraper came into view. But these arguments are not going to be compelling for the people who need to hear them.

>Everyone in the US has to own and maintain a car.

More than 90% of American households already have a car. Many of the rest want them, and just can't afford it (either because of their own income or the scarcity of parking where they live).

>More drivers, more deaths.

True relative to staying home. Used to be true relative to public transit. May not be anymore, since public transit got a lot more dangerous.

>Further sprawl, growing infrastructure costs, higher taxes.

Americans love their sprawl. The only reason it's not infinite is that at some point it gets counterbalanced by commute time. It's not clear that commuting is ever coming back on the scale we had before; remote or mostly-remote workers will, by and large, live even farther from population centers.

>Further decline of spontaneous interactions in the US.

Yes, that is an extremely compelling benefit and the explicit reason most people will seek it in a world newly cognizant of infectious disease risk.