Almost every state has an inexpensive option for a state school. No, maybe you can’t afford CU with its Buffalo shaped Million $$ pool, but you probably can afford Mesa state (which can come with a CU engineering degree) or Metro State which is in downtown Denver with transportation included in the student fees and a lot of FA programs. Should everyone in the state not get any fancy dorms or climbing walls because everyone can’t afford it?
NY has a lot of cheaper options for the students who can’t afford Stony Brook. Not everyone can go to Stony Brook, or UF or Penn State, but there are schools they can afford in the state system. Making state colleges free is not going to get everyone into Michigan or Wisconsin - there just isn’t enough room.
It’s okay with me if the free options for colleges are the CCs, the directional colleges, or the city colleges without football. Life isn’t always fair and some people get more because they pay more.