tl;dr people have been independently railing on the suburbs for centuries, but because they don't all live in dense urban environments they don't know what they are talking about?

or because the good thing about cities was removed and now suburbs compensate by being the exact same drab places as they were, but nothing more alluring exists currently?

what people like about cities, and what they hate about suburbs still exists. the former will just have to be read about in a book.