OK, but I can more easily handle what I'd have overloaded a 60s-era half-ton with and don't have to lift it over my head to get it in my means of conveyance.
No cattle, not hauling implements or tractors either. The point is that I have to haul a lot of stuff that won't fit into the car/truck combo thingies, and driving a full-sized pickup every day doesn't make sens for me. Can't afford/don't want the maintenance of a car and a truck, so... the "stodgy station-wagon" rules the day for my needs. The compact size of the Cherokee is just enough for what I have to do. I'm not pulling stumps either, but I've drug some logs out of the woods that weighed almost as much as the "car." It's a compromise, but so woiuld be a real truck for me - I just picked my own optimum set of compromises and a truck didn't fit - for ME.
I don't know what it's like everywhere else, but most pickups I see on the road these days never get used as a truck. You see pretty people drive them in town to run errands and go to work. I think most of those are "look at me - I've got the baddest truck in town."
That's not counting the young guys with "old" pickups that are three colors, require a step-ladder to get into and have a set of wheels on them that are worth four times what the truck's worth. I kind of like those kids. Their truck sits in the yard between paydays and parts runs, but hey are very dedicated to "old" trucks.
Vans and mini-vans, if they still make them, would make a LOT of sens for a lot of people. I like the idea too, really. There's a lot of space inside some of those minivans. Ground clearance could be an issue for me and I won't be dragging a 6'x12' trailer full of firewood out of the woods with one, but all that room inside! Just don't like all the motor-driven opening/closing/folding/unfolding, or the rest of the fancy, electronic stuff that's on everything these days.