By "ideological zealotry" you mean "scientific research."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01660...

https://marketing.wharton.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/...

https://hbr.org/2019/04/research-when-airbnb-listings-in-a-c...

And so on.

Reality is AirBnB has been absolutely catastrophic financially in many urban areas, with unhelpful political consequences.

It has been - provably - a huge contributing factor to unaffordable rent increases.

Not being able to get your kid to sleep because the upstairs flat is now a weekend party place for tourists is… a non-problem?

‘Wonderful’ convenience for tourists, sure. Writing off reasonable objections as ‘ideological zealotry’ from ‘bad political actors’ is a very weird take.

Case in point, I recently backed out of buying a house when I found out the house next door was an Airbnb, and the neighbours were not digging the thoughtless visitors. Is that an ideological preference or a pro-sleep one?

Please read more carefully and don't shove your own words down other people's throats, it's rude and un-called for. What zealotry? The only politically-sided arguments in this thread are coming from you. By the way, if you took a few more seconds to read a bit more carefully, you would have noticed I never said they did not provide any value - only that the net negative seems to be outweighing the benefits to the society as a whole, and this is based on hard data, not ideology, mate. This is to make comparison to Threads, which is, unlike these two, not even providing a real-life service to justify it's existence. Plus, please learn: revenue != profits. I won't go down the rabbit hole of discussing the business models of Uber and Airbnb, you obviously haven't understood who carries the actual operating costs of those "businesses" and maybe in your world these are great services, as they come with an implicit ego-boost for all the Karens of this world?