You are correct in saying
You are correct in saying that the Cybertruck is not the answer for someone who wants to buy a traditional truck, but also wants an EV. but it is still a pickup truck simply because it has an open bed in the back, which no SUV does. You talk about specific needs and uses, expand-ability, and customization to match the various truck-buyer's needs. But Tesla does not need to do all of that to build a truck. The larger truck market is HUGE, and extremely varied. And Tesla (or Rivian) is only going to meet the requirements and needs of a smaller subset-group of truck buyers. It is still certainly a truck, just perhaps not what every buyer needs in their own truck. But that's OK, they already have 150,000 pre-orders of people who don't care if traditional truck buyers don't think that it is a truck, or that it looks wildly different, or that it doesn't have bulletproof glass.