I think the problem is that buildings like you describe don't contribute to the city at street level. If the residental buildings are smaller then the gym, sauna, swimming pool will have to be in the neighborhood available to everyone.
It reminds of a coworker, a frontend developer and Linux user. He asked for a macbook pro from his employer, and after using it for a year he switched back to Linux. He said it was because he missed using it.
I use Linux primarily because of ideology, but luckily it's also the best OS out there, for me at least and many others.
For others Mac OS or Windows will be better for them, and that's fine.
> I have to strongly agree with your last point - I also never understood the massive hard-on that the technical user-base has against useful telemetry.
I think it would be far less hostility if we as users got access to the information ourselves. E.g. I would think it would be very useful to see stats on which features I'm using in firefox, how often, which features I'm not using, how many tabs I have (compared to the average user) etc., and I would be much more happy to share that data with firefox if I can see it first.