That street runs both ways. Car culture is already amazingly pushy and obnoxious in the degree to which it makes life difficult for pedestrians, cyclists, etc.
First, there is a lot of development that falls under what I call "Fuck you pedestrian" development. It's not uncommon for intersections in big cities to require a pedestrian to cross all three ways to get to the other side or walk a block to cross at all. I've been to strip malls where fencing forced pedestrians to walk the long way around, following the same route and going through the same entrance as a car, instead of providing a small gap in the fence to save them many steps.
Second, streets that prioritize cars are generally wider and push development farther apart. This makes errands on foot longer than they have to be.
Third, I've lived without a car for more than a decade. Cars are faster on the open road over long distances. They aren't necessarily faster for running errands in town, assuming you can shop reasonably close to home. I have many times experienced this.
I leave on foot and someone else goes in their car and we get there about the same time because they have to stop at traffic lights, etc.
Fourth, Amsterdam isn't "cherry picked." It was intentionally designed to be bicycle friendly by people who chose to make that a priority, which is why it is. The US has chosen other design priorities. Unsurprisingly, we've gotten different results.
I'm not being disingenuous. I've lived without a car for more than a decade and I wanted to be an urban planner at one time, so I've read plenty of stuff pertinent to the subject.
People who love cars in the US saying that car culture is the norm and is proper and the right thing and other people need to quit their whining is not unlike white Americans acting like people of color are just whiny crybabies and racism isn't real.
The fact that you like cars and car culture works for you doesn't on the face of it prove that other people with other lifestyles don't find it amazingly inconvenient and obnoxiously so. It's just usually not worth saying because most people don't want to hear it and won't really listen. They will just double down on their existing prejudice, which is, itself, an obnoxious thing to deal with.
Amsterdam promoted cars and was very bike-unfriendly from the 1920s to the 1970s. It took a lot of concerted campaigning to get Dutch politicians and urban designers to start prioritising bikes again.
