I once rented a garage apartment for a night on Christmas Eve to be near my partner's kid. We ended joining the hosts from the main house for a campfire that night and talked about the universe. It was very awesome. And very different from renting a house that was taken off the housing market.
Airbnb went from a cheap way to crash in a spare bedroom or rent a vacation house for a weekend and turned into "what if hotels openly hated you and acted like they were doing you a favor by letting you give them hundreds of dollars to stay there, and also it's more expensive"