All this shit seems so futile though. I just want the jumbo sidewalks with a bike lane to be everywhere.

Sidewalks and bike lanes don’t get used unless (a) destinations are packed closely enough together for enough trips to be in reasonable walking or cycling distance, and (b) the experience is reasonably pleasant (i.e., not a no-man’s-land sandwiched between a stroad and a bunch of parking lots).

In other words, it’s the zoning that has to be fixed first, by increasing density and removing minimum parking requirements.