New single tire on 2022 Prius AWD-e LE, rougher/bouncier ride at low speeds??

There was some kind of error with board and I don't know why this message posted but I can't delete it anywhere I see so please ignore.

 

I should say I wish I really knew whether something has changed with the car or only with my perception of it! I may just be shifting my anxiety of driving in the insanity of COVID era NYC where between 1-10% of people don't obey traffic laws any more because they learned during the lockdowns nobody enforces them most of the time, which wasn't helped when I was rear ended in this car a month after buying it new!

But my feeling it was riding rougher came after having it about 8-9 months and I think if any incident directly preceeded the change it was driving over one of the deeply recessed drainage grates our oh-so-intelligent NYC designers place RIGHT IN THE DRIVING SURFACE OF THE NARROW LANES OF THE BELT PARKWAY (a major NYC freeway). New York drivers and New York roads maintenance/design are similarly awful.

I think I felt like ride was rougher soon after but thought maybe it was something to do with tire pressure when weather warmed up.