If you watch the interview with the people who made the cybertruck it is clear Elon was like "you know what would be cool" and then gave them ~90 days to make a working prototype. Honestly it could be cool if it didn't look like a shitty polygonal car from a PS2 game
I would agree with you if it wasn't a design that ignored safety regulations. Current design is not even road legal in the EU due to steel panel thickness being against the maximum allowed limit.
I see people mention this a lot but I'm not sure if Tesla as a company really cares. Pickup trucks are not huge sellers outside of North America from my understanding.
And that's just pickups in general, the Cybertruck is pretty big. I'd imagine a majority of the sales would be for smaller pickups.
I think you could have both a unique looking car, and one that is somewhat sensibly designed.
So many sacrifices of the cyber truck are done just to be different. Like the $100 windshield wiper that spans the entire windshield. That's just bad design for the sake of uniqueness.
Just to play devil's advocate here, that also means that you'd be wasting astronomical amounts of time and money to develop something the market doesn't want. It doesn't make much business/financial sense to sink so much into a failed project but since musk came up with it we have to look at it.