All the reasons FWD have become so widely used in cars and any advantages it may have boil down to one thing and one thing only, bean counting.
There is no argument for FWD over RWD or AWD that is not related to that.
The original reason was to get rid of the tunnel which stuck up through the car to accommodate the propshaft, thus making more room in the rear passenger compartment.
I would say most drivers these days are safer in a FWD vehicle. They would have no idea about how to correct should things go wrong in a RWD.
Yes, sure. But in the end it boiled down to bean counting. Without the tunnel, cars could also be smaller, which means cheaper to build and cheaper to sell. FWD was always about saving on something. It was never because it's the better way to move a car.
It is also because consumers want cheaper and roomier car, just look at the MPV boom in the 90's. And also space in cities is limited..
But as an old saying goes taste is like your buttocks, divided 
Sure. But one thing is saying, I like FWD cars even though I know they are worse than RWD and AWD. Then it's a matter of taste, and you are surely entitled to your own buttocks.
But another is pretending FWD is not inferior, which it is. Then it has nothing to do with taste or even opinion.
As for the whole point of consumers wanting cheaper, this is exactly my point. FWD was always about being cheap.
This is the sole advantage any way you slice it. Even when cheap doesn't directly translate into "money". FWD was never about being the best way to move a car. Never was and will never be. Unless cars start driving backwards.
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