I mean you aren't alone but it shows how petty and myopic people get about things.

I will repeat as I often do: WMATA is a good system. It should be even better but damn we are lucky to have it. I've been to so many world cities and it is ridiculous the comparisons made. There are only a handful of places that really are better, and the population of DC is only 650k, the region is like 6 million. When WMATA was at is peak there were 800k trips on the rail alone... That's more than a trip a person for the population. A system that sucks does not get that kind of use. Even now it hits 300k+ which is still a large fraction. I would guess about 1.5 million live within 2 miles of a station on the rails. Given counties like MoCo have populations of 1 million. The system will get back up to 800k a day in a few years.

People are radically underestimating the purple line also I think, though it will be 4 more years. It is going to be a lot more Red line use in the ends of the system because you skip going downtown and back out, its a big deal. That said there needs to be another alt east-west line closer into the core built as purple doesn't really allow a bypass if they want to shut down the Or-Sv-Bu core line. If they can build another core line and make a grid maintenance will get a lot less painful. If we fund that line today it might be complete in about 2040. I will be quite old... But I hope they build it for all the people who are teens today.