But how many of those problems stemmed from the external requirement that those fleeing would have to commute back in 5 days per week, and for the most part all on the same 9-5 schedule? There's a version of moving away from dense urban cores that still accommodates community, transportation, public space, local necessities, commerce and small businesses, etc.

Many of those issues had nothing to do with how crappy commuting is for affluent people (a significant problem) but what happens to the people without the means to escape.

Local tax base diminishes, concentration of low incomes leads to a sort of ghettoization, etc.

Personally I think density and varied income levels within that are good for a number of reasons.

Chill on the allcaps, and there's quite a lot of precedent that anything visible by the public is fair game. For example, evidence you throw into the trash becomes public property once you put it out on the curb

Apologies, surveillance-state apologists get me worked up. Things done in public or in other locations without "an expectation of privacy" are legally fair game for evidence gathering. Pointing a camera toward a home which may have open windows, etc. is not unless there is a warrant for that kind of surveillance.

Kozmo was two full evolutionary cycles ahead of its time, and pretty much defined peak optimism for what the internet could weave together. Things since have been [much] bigger in effect, but the ambitions for tacking non-existant infrastructure seem petite in comparison.