I am in love with all these pickup trucks. No Need to give up the features and comfort of cars when you buy them. Once you own it then it is hard to imagine without that, it's like a horse sitting in your parking lot and waiting for you. For offloading like desert driving, it can be easily driven in long range and medium range dunes but you should be very calculative in technical dunes, you will be easily get crusted while crossing ridge and stuck in pockets. I learnt to drive in desert in LWB pickup and my masters @Gaurav and @Rahimdad did not sparred me at all. Once you develop the skill of sand reading it is easy to venture anywhere in desert.
My advice is don't follow SWB, you will be left behind 😃😃😃