I guess I dont understand the appeal to even bigger tires? We are already taking the biggest truck and making it taller, and longer (RIP SCAB) when about 1% of people will use it where that will make any difference 1 time in its lifetime, and the other 80% of users have to park outside because it is now too large to fit in your home/work/parking structures.
I actually go off road, and bigger tires offer better performance. The truck is designed for going off road, not crawling malls. I'm thrilled to death that mall crawlers love them, because then I benefit from volume manufacturing. I like that Ford improved performance because this is a performance vehicle. That it works so well as a daily driver is amazing. And good for us since there is demand from folks who never leave pavement.
The silly thing is only an inch longer and two inches taller than gen2 if you get the bigger tires. It's the same length and only one inch taller if you don't. Unless you have a garage the size of a shoebox, it will fit easily. Most garages around here are sized to hold a stock 3/4 ton or one ton and those scrape eight feet tall, the height of a standard garage door, and are quite a bit longer to boot. The Raptor is designed for wide open spaces where land is cheap and building costs are low. No one who can afford a Raptor has a tiny garage when that's the case.
I agree that the width can be annoying in tight parking lots, especially where the spaces are straight in. When that's the case, I back into my spot so that I can't be blocked in by some bozo across the aisle. I also park out in the back of the lot where there aren't any cars and walk a few hundred feet farther. It hasn't killed me yet.
