Yes, the bed's small, but the #HyundaiSantaCruz was quite nice to drive and reasonably useful as a truck. The Maverick still gets my vote as the better budget buy and more useful truck, but the SC is a pretty good package overall.
https://www.forbes.com/wheels/cars/hyundai/santa-cruz/
Author Jen Dunnaway (who is not on Mastodon) and I also used loans of both trucks to do a head-to-head:
https://www.forbes.com/wheels/news/ford-maverick-vs-hyundai-santa-cruz/