Like in the 90s, there were zero veg restaurants (in my town, anyways). The best you could do was Indian, and damn I ate a lot of Indian. I was lucky if a store had one kind of tofu. Soymilk wasn't really sold in the store. Fake meats and specialty veg foods didn't exist. No vegan ice creams and desserts and shit. Also no Uber Eats.
I listen to people complaining today and I really have no patience for it. I went vegetarian (not vegan*) at 19. I bought and cooked my own meals. I made a fuck ton of rice and beans. And I had to do this in a suburban hell with no car. Adults in a city whinge that it's hard and I'm like 
Granted, people living in rural Kansas or whatever food desert might have it harder. For the rest, fucking just do it.
*I've been vegan for ten years now
I also went vegetarian -> vegan in my teens in suburbia, been vegan for most of my life at this point. I don't understand when people I organize who seem like they should get it, don't.
It makes it really hard for me to take them seriously, and more often than not I find that their cooking skills suck too
Do they happen to be born after 1993 by any chance?
Not all of them! What's frustrating to me is that while a handful of vegans I know are comrades, most are libs. (One person that's a turbo-lib mostly does it for health reasons)
I'm just gonna copy and paste something I wrote elsewhere to describe my thoughts on "vegan for health" and "vegan for the environment:"