I also find that I accidentally, slightly hit the touchbar whenever I type on it and all my windows expand. Incredibly annoying. Not to mention the awkward placement of the escape button without any haptic feedback.
A walkable urban utopia sounds wonderful, for those of us that work, shop, and eat within miles of our homes. But where is exactly that feasible? To what percentage of people?
"Affordable housing would be far more attainable if our infrastructure encouraged walking and alternative forms of transportation."
The problem you see in Seattle and San Francisco, there's no room. I don't know if removing parking lots is the answer to this, in areas I've seen, again, partially due to zoning restrictions and space. Just as easy to say we should be building cities for instantaneous teleportation, and not driving, but that's not the reality we live in.
Ah, the journalism of 2017. Poorly written perspective piece with zero sustenance.
TL;DR: Man decides to try 'alt-right' sites and services catered to conservative 'alt-tech' communities. Sites are poorly designed and implemented. Sites lack users. Opinions on social media. End.