I lived in Irvine for about 6 months and Laguna Beach for about 2 years and I traveled to Koreatown and downtown Los Angeles a reasonable amount for family reasons. The amazing thing
about the 405 wasn't that it was congested, it was that travel time was completely unpredictable, even with obsessive attention to traffic information resources. 45 minutes? 3 hours? Any time of day, anything was possible.
