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It’s nice to pull into a garage with stuff in your car on a wet day, shut the door behind you, and go inside.

Garages are important because it’s harder for people to steal your car or your rims or wheels or your catalytic converter. Most thieves care about speed and just use tow trucks to defeat modern tech in cars so even if a garage door can be force opened that’s a deal breaker.

Also it allows you to own stuff like a canoe. It’s just better storage

Even without a car a overhead door to an intermediary storage room is actually a great practical idea. In the future autonomous cars you don’t own may make garages outmoded but at the same time they are great for delivery services as you want your packages brought into a space that still has a second locked door to your house.

Maybe a compromise is to make the garage more architecturally appealing. What about good not shitty windows in the garage door? How about wood ones?

Also tradition dictates porches but garages have a cultural aspect. In my childhood neighborhood the door being left open was a signal someone was home and or amenable to interacting, kids can play, etc etc. Don’t remove this piece of language, IMO.