I wouldn't go that far but I will say, to me street photography is as much about the people as it is the street, architectural photography is fun but you can decide to show up at good light, with people, to me, it's one of the purer distillations of photography: capturing a specific moment in time that due to every circumstance cannot happen again.
That's not even to mention the fact that people are just interesting.
Yes of course, I just meant it's just as much the people as where those people are, so yeah it doesnt have to be a street, but people understand 'Street Photography' generally more than having to explain "Photography in any public place", I wasnt trying to infer that it had to be a street