everyone should live as they want but tbh this sounds more depressing than the person in the article because the person doesn't glorify this way of living.

Perhaps you are super small and this is actually somehow comftable and you don't mind doing private stuff in a car in some parking lot (or at least you actually park in nature?) but you know you constatly live in someones else space. Starbucks, gym, library, work.

Why not take a little bit of money and do the van conversation much much faster?