I agree. When I come home from my flights and my folks pick me up we head south on I5 and come up to where we live on Hwy101 completely avoiding Seattle; it’d be easier and quicker to take the ferry over to the Olympic Peninsula but we don’t want to go anywhere near downtown Seattle even if it’s just on I5 to Edmonds.
I sometimes have to go to Seattle to work but it is rare.
I live up by Edmonds and so there is a lot of travel I can do on 99. So when going south I can stay to the west of Seattle.