Looking for tonight's on the UBCx skytrain expansion

I came across this piece:

I’m a big supporter of public transit and usually in favour of ambitious infrastructure projects. Still, this article raised some great points about how big transit builds are planned, justified, and communicated to the public.

It got me wondering, how do we strike the balance between building bold, future-proof systems and keeping projects practical and efficient? When is a project like this justified, vs LRT?

Would like to hear how others read it, either agreeing with it, or rebutting it.