Speculation: The people disparaging the Raptor are likely older people who think there’s no replacement for displacement, yes?
The current Raptor is not a kids’ truck. It is popular with rich kids, but then so were Ferraris and Lambos and such in the 80s, so that’s not exactly new and people didn’t call the Countach or Testarossa ‘kids cars’.
The Raptor makes more power than many older diesels (450 horsepower and 510 pound-feet of torque) and is considerably cheaper to run. You can also make a few mods and get it to make quite a bit more power.
They are older men.