It really depends on where in the USA, but for the most part he's right.

Any growing communities like small towns and cities have the chance to change this, but it usually sounds too high risk for them.

Plus they already have to deal with the insane red tape and overhead in the US like poorly cascaded federal and state laws, lowest bidder stupidity, maximum annual budget spending, scam zoning laws, and slow as hell development time.

Like I would definitely throw in effort to try in the plenty of towns that surround metro areas.

Dearborn for example, which is technically metro Detroit, surprisingly has some walkable neighborhoods because the smallest roads are thinner and businesses are very close to residential areas. It's definitely not perfect because all the main roads (stroads) are still absolutely huge, but it's nice to see that it's not just typical suburbs with strict Zoning.

But after visiting Houston, I would just declare the entire state of Texas a lost cause.