When all countries of the world are transformed into urban hellscapes, this will be the only suitable method of transportation.
I would rather risk my life jumping off walls and scrambling across roofs than have a souless robot slave-master scan my brain for a bus pass every time I want to go to work.
This is the opposite of dumb and pointless. Being fat and sitting watching videos on the Internet is dumb and pointless. This is at least attempting to make better human beings.