"Workhorse" or "Show Pony"?

[2011G6E]

Has anyone had the issue of people giving you "friendly advice" on doing up a vehicle, particularly a ute, and they don't seem to realise that not everyone starts out aiming for a full on show car?

I've been doing a bit of work to an old WB 253 ute we bought, and most people are quite accepting of the fact that I'll be painting it myself, and only doing it to a standard that is "good", not "over the top". However, some people just don't seem to understand that while it will be sitting on alloy wheels, lowered, and with a mild 253, shift kitted auto, GTS dash, and black paint, it will be a workhorse...it'll be getting used to go to the dump with loads of rubbish, moving timber and stuff around for the family, going camping in the bush at the gemfields, and bringing large stuff home that we've bought.

There seems to be a fair bit of this sentiment around when you tell people you have an old V8 ute..."you should stick a nice set of 17's or 18's on it...the biggest stereo you can fit...get a hard lid...you want to paint it black? I know a great panel beater that would give it a piano black finish so deep and glossy you wouldn't believe!", and so on.
So when did utes become something that the general feeling is that they should be done to a standard that means they are unuseable as a ute anymore, something that shouldn't dare venture onto a dirt road or rough track, which wouldn't dare venture to the dump full of grass and tree cuttings from the yard, something that shouldn't carry anything bigger in the tray than a small polishing and detailing kit for when you park and admire it?

While I can appreciate any show-quality car, it just seems a bit odd that people cannot understand that you would like to use a "ute" as a "ute"....