I had a 1977 Heavy 3/4 ton Chevy. It did everything you need a pickup to do and that was enough. You can still buy a regular cab work truck but you can't find them on most dealer lots. Not enough margin I guess.

I recently used someone else's pickup to carry their very heavy crate to the freight depot. Jacked up 1/2 ton crew cab with about a 4 1/2 foot bed. It cost him almost 10 grand more than my 2016 3/4 ton Ram Promaster hightop van. It is an almost useless pickup. I only used it because he already had the crate in it. At least he is using that tiny little bed, most of them are never used.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.