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Aye. I have a 4×4 for a specific job. It pretty much only gets used for that. It is exactly the dimensions and capacity it needs to be. If it were larger or more powerful, it would lose its purpose.
It baffles me that in the US, people use them as dailies, don't put them to work, and almost treat them as a status symbol, despite what they really represent.
Some of it comes down to the way so many of us are underpaid.
I'd get a hell of a lot of use out of a pickup truck if I had one. Not enough to want to daily drive it, but enough that it would be worth having.
But for most of my daily driving, I could just about get away with an electric golf cart (the way laws are in some states I probably could use something like a golf cart, but my own states implementation of NEVs and such are a little stricter)
In an ideal world I'd have some little electric sedan for most of my daily commuting and errands, and then a truck (though probably a small one) for when I need one.
But I don't have the budget for 2 vehicles, nor the parking space for them.
Personally my compromise is a mid-sized SUV that fits most of my needs well enough. Others may decide that the best compromise for them is to daily drive the truck. I don't think most of those people have actually thought too deeply about whether that's actually a good choice, but I'm sure that for some people it does actually make sense.
Mine is a daily driver, but it's basically a smaller SUV that they put a bed on instead of a trunk. It has AWD and 3500lb towing capacity which is all I really need.