Sure took vehicle manufacturers long enough to add a cabin air filter, would view the squirrel cage blower wheel as a leave chopper, and the face of the evaporator as the filter. Debris would pile up like crazy restricting air flow, but would also plug the evaporator drain so your passenger would have their feet in 2" of water.
Only access to this was to remove the blower motor, ha worse car for this was my 70 Buick Riviera. To this had to remove the right fender first, but first the front bumper just to clean that mess up.
So how did the 2nd generation Cruze change. prior could remove the entire glove compartment, and would use a clip lead for that fish line or would never find it again.
This is the best I could find, youtube is ancient history, #4 is the filter box, #6 is the filter. Best way to find this is to look.
Ha, my daughter was told by her Kia dealer only they can replace her cabin air filter, to save her a hundred mile trip, said let me look at it first. Opened the glove compartment door and saw a rectangular plastic piece with two squeeze tabs on it. Two seconds later I had her filter out, my trick was using a flashlight, dark in there.
Showed her the filter, had two dead flies on the top of it and just some small debris, with a quick vacuuming, looked like new again so slapped it back in. More than likely saved her 50 bucks. Also showed her where she could buy a carbon for $9.50 with free shipping, but up to her to order it. Heck I will only charge you ten bucks to install it.