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FWIW I haven't seen "negativity for trucks"
I've seen fact-based information showing most people who buy them don't do the "truck things" a few in this thread are convinced are THE ONLY REASON TO BUY A TRUCK.
In reality only a minority of truck buyers purchase to tow or go off-road. That doesn't mean the small % that do those things don't do them, it doesn't even mean that being able to MARKET those abilities to the majority who will never use them isn't valuable for a truck.
But the idea nobody will buy one if it can't do ALL THE TRUCK THINGS SUPER GREAT is simply not reflected in how most people who actually buy trucks actually use them.
Most of them use them on city streets, with nothing being towed. A surprisingly high % of those people even do it with an empty bed.
Maybe they like the IDEA they COULD do those things even if they don't.... As someone else mentioned maybe they like the high view- I personally know two women who both drive pickups and specifically cite that exact thing as why-- even though neither has ever towed anything.
LOTS of people (the majority) buy trucks for reasons other than what a few folks here imagine are the only reasons people buy trucks is the point.