Weird that (actually enormous) semi-trucks / lorries seem to have managed not to do this, either now or for the past 20 years. It's only the (fake-enormous) light pickup trucks following this trend.

You can thank government regulation for that. The semi-trucks and other commercial vehicles, because they're so large and tall, have sensible regulation designed to prevent blinding other drivers in smaller vehicles.

Pickups and SUVs don't have this, for reasons... I guess the regulators don't want to piss off the large majority of the voting public, who feel entitled to blind other drivers?

I get regularly blinded by transit buses and other tall vehicles, so I'm not sure what the 'government regulation' actually says about headlights.

Freight trucks are hit and miss, but generally not as bad as the suburban dad trucks, yes.

The laws already exist for passenger vehicles, they're just selectively enforced.

The laws allow pickups and SUVs to have extremely high-mounted lights. There's no law against it, otherwise manufacturers wouldn't build them that way. Selective enforcement has nothing to do with it.

Ford had a recall to adjust their lights I believe.. too bright!