What you write is definitely true for the US, and the poster child for unlivable car-centric cities in the US is Houston, where I escaped from some decades ago after 12 years in SE Texas.

What you write is NOT true everywhere. There are places like the Netherlands that are extremely bicycle-centric. This was not always the case. The Dutch conciously changed from being car-centric to bike centric.

https://dutchreview.com/culture/how-the-netherlands-became-a-cycling-country/

Sadly I couldn't find the link I was looking for that shows how over the decades the same intersections in the Netherlands changed from car-centric to bike centric.

I lived in the Netherlands 10 years ago it for a few years (1/2 time). Everyone had a bike. Everyone used a bike. It was understood that bikes are the dominant way to get around.

Vienna is where I live for decades now (including the other 1/2 time of my Dutch years). Over the years Austria, Vienna in particular, is getting more and more bike friendly. More importantly, Austria supports public transport, Vienna does so aggressively.

Vienna is also slowly but surely making Vienna less car friendly. Major streets including huge portions of the old downtown have been closed to traffic. Roads and parking lots are turned into pedestrian plazas. Parking lots are also moved underground. This has helped with pollution (air and noise) and helped tourism.

So there is hope, but societies must take a social view of their environments and decide that society as a whole is more important than the individual when it comes to roads. I'm not holding out much hope for the US there.