Four wheel drive usually means a beefier front end and more weight, so yeah they're a bit tougher. But I've seen a 2500HD get written off from a deer hit that bent the frame rail just behind the cab. The frame's the real killer on those... if the crumple zone got pushed back into the mounts or the bed's tweaked, the repair bill adds up fast with all the electronics in the newer ones. Most people don't realize the labor alone for pulling a bent frame straight is five figures easy.

Let the hammer do the work" sounded wrong to me until I tried it and saw the difference.

So you're saying the burrito roll magically compresses denim fibers? I've got a pair of raw selvage jeans that took me months to break in and rolling them tight would just crease the hell out of them in weird places. Folding lets you stack them flat without any weird pressure points or wrinkles that look like you slept in them. Plus my backpack never shrinks because I'm not trying to shove rolled up pants in like a clown car experiment.

Does that mean you're actually holding back some detail on purpose now, or is it more about committing to the rough shapes from the start?

The last tech mixer I went to had 47 people and exactly 3 conversations that lasted more than 2 minutes. @laura_knight54 I get what you're saying about making eye contact but half the people there are just trying to collect business cards to inflate their linkedin numbers, they don't actually want to talk. I've tried walking up to groups and introducing myself and it always feels like I'm interrupting a private joke or someone's sales pitch. The whole thing is just a weird social game where nobody really knows what they're supposed to be doing and pretending otherwise is kind of fake.