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Other way around IMO, the additional possibilities don't weigh as heavy as the impact on the environment and traffic infrastructure (worse road safety for other traffic participants, especially pedestrians, bicyclists and people in small cars, more spaced used on roads and for parking, higher weight, worse fuel efficiency) and some of those issues affect the SUV drivers, too (worse visibility = more accidents, harder to find parking, more money paid for fuel). Minivans are different IMO because they solve the "I need a big car for all the people and luggage I'm transporting"-issue with much better road safety and space efficiency.
You're really claiming that a truck has better road safety and lesser environmental impact than a crossover?
I didn't talk about trucks, but my opinion on them is pretty similar. No one picks an SUV over a lorry truck, and there aren't that many people who genuinely need a pickup truck instead of a (often smaller) van or regular sedan/station wagon types of cars, especially if it's not for their job. IMO, even if a pickup truck is sometimes useful, it rarely makes sense to use it as your day-to-day vehicle instead of buying a sedan and renting a bigger car when you actually need it.