You have local differences everywhere. If you use public transport in Glattbrugg it is splendid, but the bus system in Kloten (6 buses departing from the airport within 7 minutes, but then none until half an hour later, Kloten SBB rail-station only having ONE S-Bahn, while Glattbrugg/Opfikon has 2 and Bassersdorf 3) is a definite desaster.

Or go to the Solothurner prairies and try to reach Oberbipp. The public transport system in that area must have been devised in the times of Ivan the Terrible !

So that, while public transport in Switzerland generally excels, also here are weak spots.

I some 3 or 4 years ago spoke with a relatively young Brit here in Zurich who started to lecture on how excellent this and that had been in London W2 in the 1970ies, until I stopped him and politely asked him where HE had been in the 70ies. And when he had to admit as having been born in the 80ies to have been absent then, I told him that I had been in W2 in 72 for three months, and nicely could tell him some "reality check"