I think in the Rivian's sense an "adventure" is not a sports style offroading and competition, but some form of internal "tourism" and pastime, I mean some people watch TV or attend sports competitions, and some just go somewhere on their cars. It is not even necessary for relaxation that these...
Many people can't understand one simple thing: if you don't buy a product from a promising new American startup and instead overthink every minor sh&t and weigh them with apothecary scale, then this or any other startup will not survive and you will be left with less competition and foreign cars...
Remove also Internet, Bluetooth, LTE, screens altogether, everything. They are all the devil's inventions. Cars too. Horse carriages were much better, reliable, and safer.
If batteries become cheaper in coming years, and mass production scale reduces the costs for R2, etc., it would be great if R2s have almost the same features as R1s, but be smaller in dimensions, and R1s in their turn increase power and functionality with the existing price tags.
Ford-150 ICE has mpg around 20 miles per gallon. If gallon price is $4, then $1 makes 5 miles. Suppose you cover 1,000 miles per month, it is $200.
Now if R has average 2 m/kwh, 1,000 miles = 500 kwh and with average price 0.35, it costs $175. Add $25 "vampire drain" as you calculated and it is...
It has almost unique front-end design, maybe some are irritated but I think it works, if you remove these "eyes" and put some typical design, its "personality" is diminished.