It makes car ownership more necessary in most parts of the US, at a time when cars are expensive.
It eliminates a "default fallback job", exactly when inflation and recession make it more important.
For those who can't drive (whether for reasons of money or immigration status or something else), it makes it all the more important to be in one of the few places with decent transport. Those are expensive places.
In exchange, maybe bus ridership will go up 12% in San Francisco and New York. That's a bad trade.
Yeah, I prefer urbanism too, but, on net, Uber was good for probably everybody but the investors. Hell, if the government ran it at cost, it'd probably add overall to the economy through positive externalities.
Utopia involves nice little walkable towns and bicycles and such, but I don't see how you get to there from here, in the US, without blowing everything up first -- some unimaginable catastrophe, like the Yellowstone caldera going boom, or a decades-long strategic bombing campaign by the Empire of Japan. There's just no way to fix it. It is what it is. Uber makes the best of it.