I drive an ID.4, and I always feel like I am just a little short on space. My wife has an older Ford Escape hybrid, and it's just a little bigger, maybe a foot longer, and it holds things like Christmas trees, bed frames, etc, better with the seats down than I do. And the number of times I've felt like I was just a few inches too narrow to really pack the car with totes for camping, etc, is frustrating.
I've always had an SUV. I dont think I would function in my everyday life the way I do now with a smaller vehicle. I fill the back seat with the seats down full of packages pretty regularly. I love the car but different strokes for different folks.
Maybe this is why he was fired.