Brisbane

People are always treating Airbnbs and hotels like they fulfill the exact same role, but personally i’ve never had much luck in finding a hotel that offers a full kitchen for a reasonable rate, much less offered the sort of continuous interior space most Airbnbs can, and which is great if you tend to travel on tips with both your and extended family.

Short term rentals should definitely be more regulated, but it amazes me that condos, but rented and for poor people took so long to really become common.

I prefer an apartment that I have to clean myself

The shitty thing is that you have to clean it yourself and then they charge a "cleaning fee".

In Australia, I've also seen a relative rise of what are basically just hotels. The Airbnbs I've used overseas (admittedly not recently) have felt just like what you described. In Australia they've felt more like an apartment or townhouse bought by someone with the explicit intent to rent out as an Airbnb, with a whole bunch in the same building or complex owned for that purpose—or at least the vibe that that's the case. A couple in Brisbane that my parents have used a few times when visiting is even in the same building as a hotel. Some rooms are hotel, others are privately-owned apartments, many of which are seemingly Airbnbs. (One of said hotels made the news recently for a really awful cockroach infestation, which is neat...) You feel just as disconnected from the city as you would in a hotel. Perhaps even more so, since in a hotel there's at least a semblance of a sense of connectedness to other hotel patrons, which you lose in these hotel-based Airbnbs.

Odds are the residents of Puerto Iguazu in Argentina hated your guts for driving up their rent. Airbnb, especially in it's current state is a major burden for the local population, and should be outright banned.