I'm wondering if the trend to Cocooning which ballooned in the Fall of 2008 with the USA debacle and resulted in block buster Christmas sales of home entertainment electronics, has persisted with online shopping convenience over making  the effort to get out to look for stuff.
Home bound folks, young families and low income people can't access malls remote from public transit. High rents and profit sharing in malls kills off small entrepreneurs.
This is also why the interesting stores have disappeared from main streets everywhere.
The above notions impact our physical well being as evidenced in scary stats on obesity and overweight people climbing awkwardly out of their SUVs in the suburbs. People are less
sociable it seems to me, little eye contact and rarely a smile on the street:
growing inward, moving around less, soothing their anxieties with a donut.
Don't worry about developers either, they are learning fast how to survive and build.