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All the construction is concentrated into a few small pockets. So inside one of those pockets, it feels like a lot. But the majority of Seattle's land is still single-family detached residential only. This is a zoning map, you'll see that the "highrise" and "midrise" pockets are very small:

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55ff4befe4b029a3a1975...

*luxury high-rise and mid-rise condo buildings

And those developments have been concentrated in a few areas barely zoned for such. The vast majority of the city is zoned for single family buildings not townhouses/low-rises/mid-rises nevermind NYC-style high-rise apt buildings the city and the young so desperately need.

Building for density would mean you didn't have acres of single family housing within a block of the light rail stations.