It started with a referendum to switch several races from FPTP to approval. The (FPTP-elected) city council flipped out about this and proposed a RCV alternative, which triggered a vote between the two, and approval voting lost, thanks to a successful campaign that decried it as a "tech bro" "centrist" voting system that somehow produced worse outcomes than FPTP. It was baffling to watch these arguments succeed.
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Something similar happened in Seattle recently, too: https://ballotpedia.org/Seattle,_Washington,_Proposition_1A_...
It started with a referendum to switch several races from FPTP to approval. The (FPTP-elected) city council flipped out about this and proposed a RCV alternative, which triggered a vote between the two, and approval voting lost, thanks to a successful campaign that decried it as a "tech bro" "centrist" voting system that somehow produced worse outcomes than FPTP. It was baffling to watch these arguments succeed.