This is a tragedy of the commons.

If the average adult height was shifted to about 4 and a half feet (1.37 meters) resource consumption in terms of food, transportation, building sizes, furniture and appliance sizes, clothing and linenry sizes, wash loads, heating and cooling (for smaller places) would all greatly decrease. We could have almost twice the number of people with the same resource expenditures.

This would be a huge boon to the world and humanity. But, as you say, it pays to be taller than average (within limits). Just don't be involved in a roll-over accident in a standard sedan.

Odds of cancer for something that's mostly about vanity..

Height benefits are a strictly zero sum game. Every benefit for a taller person is an equivalent detriment for a shorter person in their peer group. I can't support cultural tropes that require certain people be put down for the benefit of others. However as long as human beings retain their ancestral instincts we'll never learn any better.