Wow, amazing. Completely predictable to anyone who has experience building things for the real world (and then doing those things), but amazing nonetheless.
Complexity is always the dead giveaway that homebrew designs are coming from people with little life experience. One of the first things you learn when actually going off road, going long distances, going to remote places, or even digging a basement, is that simplicity is the key to reliability and reliability has to be the most important criteria.
At the risk of getting a little Old Lady Yelling At Clouds here, even the word “overlander” bugs me. Back in the 1970s, our family had a Blazer and later a Hilux that we used to camp all over different types of wilderness. It was just “4x4 camping” back then, a subset of backcountry camping. As soon this very old hobby got codified as “overlanding” with specialized vehicles for the purpose, I feel like all the douchery suddenly appeared.
When we were stuck in a glacier runoff in that Blazer and had to open the doors and let the water run through to keep the truck from getting washed downstream while our friends got their winch set, we didn’t call it “overlanding”. It was just…. a fun weekend.
