If you can plan and work on a longer term, you can do things like staging multiple phases of development.
They can build the subway station that opens up into a dismal swamp today, and watch the YouTubers laugh. But in 3 years the swamp is scheduled to be paved, in 6 years there will be 10,000 housing units in walking radius, and in 10 years, the Work Factory will have opened nearby and you have a sprawling community of 60,000 people surrounding a subway station that would be logistically difficult and expensive if you tried to build it in after the fact.