Which is why painted lanes are landed on as the compromise, right? Like, if we (royal we) didn't come out and demand good practices then they would, by virtue of trying to do as much with as little as possible, just dismiss the need for safe infrastructure out of hand.

even if they’re not perfect

When they're 2 m wide and not next to parked cars it's a lot easier to say that, I feel. A lot of the painted "bike lanes" we get are either narrower than 2 m, put you right in the door zone of parked cars, or both. And in that case, I do think that it's worse than not having anything at all. Because then you're stuck between riding in an unsafe location on the road (in the door zone, or the far left where you might get squeezed out), or safely moving out into the general lane and potentially angering ignorant motorists.