As a seattlite who got tired of hunting for a building that still had a street number just to get a cab on 5th and Jackson or what ever I'm glad uber killed taxis
It would be like if no pizza place had mobile ordering and a new one started that had it; that was the killer feature.
Everything else (I personally believe) was hyped up by Uber so that the taxis wouldn't realize what the real competitor was until too late.
Now there may be taxi hailing apps, but nobody knows the name of them, and they're different for every city.
It had an app. It was like Uber, but worse in every way you can possibly imagine and outrageously priced.
I don't like an Uber monopoly either, but it doesn't mean the status quo was better before.