Do some people benefit from large pickup trucks for things like towing, gear storage, moving a squad of dudes to a job site, etc? Of course. If you've ever needed a machine like a modern powerful truck, you had no other alternative.

But lots of people get a lot of work done with small cars to. Not exactly the same, but still very rural, very real work.

And some still have massive trucks that never see dirt, and those are the ones Lemmy has the most ire for.

I'm fortunate enough to have an old Toyota tundra (which is the same size as the new Tacoma's, which is funny) that I drive rarely. I use it for work, camping, towing, hauling bulk materials. Otherwise it sits with a trickle charger on, and my wife and I drive our hybrid around town or state to state.