“why would I go?”
Despite everything that’s gone wrong in S.F. (and, believe me, I’ve never seen things as bad as they are now, particularly in the downtown-Market Street corridor), I do understand why some tourists still come. There’s the bay, Alcatraz, the Golden Gate Bridge, the cable cars, the hills, the crooked section of Lombard Street, Golden Gate Park, the ocean, the museums... It’s like a big Disneyland... if perhaps 1/3 of Disneyland reeked of weed and homeless people.
I think the secret is to stay in Sausalito or Tiburon and just look at SF from across the Bay. :)