Been subscribed to Adam Something for a number of months now. I like how he dunks on car-centric city design, right-wingers, Elon Musk, and capitalism.
Good video overall. Capitalism's race to the bottom has resulted in much of 21st century architecture looking rather bland and same-y for the sake of profit. Even with our commercial places, just look at how fast food restaurants used to have unique and distinguishable designs, but in recent years they're all just nondescript boxes. You could strip the signage/logos off of a 2020s McDonald's and you'd probably have a hard time telling it apart from a 2020s Wendy's or Pizza Hut. Retail giants have been worse for longer. Big box stores & strip malls have looked meh since my parents were kids, just as dull as the suburban sprawl they were created alongside. Shopping malls probably fared better, though, especially in the 80s & 90s (haven't been in one built within the past 5-10 years).
But as he points out, nice stuff is still being made. Modern architecture is still capable of making visually interesting places, and some places are intentionally built to look retro. A neighborhood development in my hometown was started in the mid 00s and is still under development. It has a lot of architecture that makes it look in many ways like the stuff build around here in the early 20th century, though some of it is more modern. There's even some limited mixed-use development (the first built here since probably before WW2), including these restaurants on one intersection with apartments above them:
Unlike other neighborhoods here, I actually see people walking around the place (not just passers-by from the surrounding pedestrian/bike trail), because there's actual amenities. Not much (they could use a small grocery store), but it's there. There are no parking minimums, and everything is close to the street instead of being required to have some massive setback (the houses are larger than average, but the lots are smaller, so the houses take up most of the plot). Everything is a good bit denser than the other neighborhoods in town. Sadly, this neighborhood is one-of-a-kind around here, and was built along the riverfront with higher-income families in mind (by local standards, at least; the cheapest houses are over $400k, with some going for over $1M, compared to a bit over $100k for the 1950's vintage house I bought in 2017).
Still, it's a good first step, and there's no reason this has to be limited to some swanky riverfront development. I wish my town would just abolish single-family zoning, double down on the denser mixed-use aspects of that new neighborhood as the new standard, and allow older neighborhoods to have this sort of stuff be built.
