Indeed, they're really just turning cities into the human equivalent of factory farms. I haven't been to Barcelona but some other cities in East Asia which are like that, and once you get over the novelty, you realise how suffocating it feels to live in such an environment.

No thank you indeed; I normally stay far away from the cores of cities precisely because of that atmosphere, and if stuff like this keeps happening to them, it looks like I'll remain so for the forseeable future.