Is anyone seeing enough benefit of old-school H/C to reject central air in new builds?

This is just a general curiosity question. I recently moved from an apartment with central air to a hundred year old rowhome with steam radiators and window units.

I've found that the window units especially provide me greater flexibility and make a room colder faster than a central AC system. I currently have my window units set at 80F and they're chilly. I really like open windows when the weather's nice so I have more granular zone control this way.

I also feel like it's cheaper. I've seen stories about AC units failing in the middle of a heat wave and homeowners having to shell out tons of money to get it back on. If a window unit crashes, you can go out and buy a new one pretty easily. Again with multi-zone, I can keep costs lower by only running the units in rooms that I'm in (leaving bedroom off during the day, for example).

With the radiators, I really love the radiating warmth they put out as opposed to the air flowing around the house and hearing the fan running. I think they look cool in an old home though they do interfere with window treatment options. Relatively low maintenance too.

This system is still new to me so I'm open to being told I haven't seen the worst of it yet. At this point, I almost feel sorry for people who put central air on their list of must-haves when house shopping.

I'm curious if anyone is opting either to build a home with no central AC or if anyone's choosing to replace central air with these older systems. I know that seems stupid which is why I'm asking after my personal experience with it.

My guess would be that there's a drastic difference in the layout of much newer homes that make smaller zone systems less efficient than older homes. Once we got to "open floorplans" and such, central air is almost 'needed' for the system to work.