Building more apartments has a huge environmental impact. Also it can severely impact the beauty of a city.
Building them if there is an actual housing shortage? Sure! Building them so people from the silicon valley can be digital nomads? Hell no.
Building them if there is an actual housing shortage? Sure! Building them so people from the silicon valley can be digital nomads? Hell no.
Also, building apartments has a huge environmental impact? Ok?.... So does rural sprawl? So does... everything? There is nothing inherently more damaging about those.
Beauty of a city? Cities are cities because of apartments. And you want.. fewer of them? Perhaps you would enjoy the suburbs more?