I'm not sure I understand - it's natural to care more about what is built closer to you than farther from you. It sounds like you're generalizing "NIMBY tropes" to mean "caring about what gets built near you". But that's natural and immutable. It's the base definition - not the trope subset. "NIMBY tropes" normally means "opposing what gets built near you to the point of hypocrisy, irrationality, selfishness, etc", which is obviously more specific and more reasonable to criticize.
If you think it's hypocritical simply to care more about what gets built near you than what gets built far from you with no other qualifiers, that's not realistic (or even reasonable, really).
If you think it's hypocritical simply to care more about what gets built near you than what gets built far from you with no other qualifiers, that's not realistic (or even reasonable, really).