Coffee shops also often have air-conditioned environments indoors.

One large benefit of classic coffee shop style design is building community. Presumably you go to your local coffee shop (this obviously doesn't exist in suburbia) and meet other local people there. It provides opportunity to just get to meet other people, which helps people feel more connected and less scared of each other, and also let's them rely on each other when needed. It also creates a space people can use for organization efforts. You can advertise for local mutual aid groups or political organizations or whatever else to people with likely similar interests.

Car culture (particularly in America) has destroyed most people's sense of community. You live in your space, drive wherevever you need to go in your private bubble, and never interact with people living near you. It's not good.