New buildings don't have to be ugly  

Developers consistently over promise and under deliver. A problem globally that people are not unwise to

No don’t destroy old architecture

Glass & steel megaliths are now built because its fast and cheap. Past buildings of interlocking iron and masonry is beautiful but costs more money and time. Real estate billionaires now, dont care about the future, they want their turnaround money now, asap.

San Francisco is already a horrible cesspool. So, anything would be better at this point.

Exactly. Heavy government regulation is how you get brutalist Soviet-style architecture.

But for most we're so not. So many of the new buildings have been such bland nothings

Agreed. It's time to build!