My S10 is a 94 also. I love the little beast but I see it getting traded in soon on another 4 x 4. SO and I would be much more comfortable with something we both aren't worried about. It's become the "who's going to the first dent in it?" nightmare....every time we haul something we're careful...way too damn careful...it's a damn truck FFS, this is getting stupid.
Here it's almost a necessity. They don't plow worth shit and a couple of the roads we use wash out so bad sometimes you can bottom out in a car. Not to mention mulch, stone, hauling mowers, trimmers, etc.
A two wheel drive pickup won't get out of it's own way on wet grass unless you've got a load in back.