Well of course, the big three would hate for you to have access to affordable, reasonably sized cars. Then they would have to compete or innovate, It's much easier to just pay someone off and make the problem go away.
They keep hollering about efficiency, we had 50MPG cars in the 1990s...
"The lightest car sold today is heavier than the heaviest car sold 30 years ago"
Protectionism on behalf of the car companies and dealerships and the cancerous culture of car first infrastructure.