I guess the country they were in had a…certain culture and attitude to these kinda things?

They appear in Fallout 76

It's a cool idea, but I can see them dying out as things changed. Rubber isn't native to North America, and synthetic rubber requires a whole industry to create. As the tires decay and fall away, the hubs are small, metal, and not a particular advantage in effort over strapping the goods on a Brahmin.

Bethesda made a MASSIVE shift in tone and art design.

As mentioned above, these appear in Fallout 76.

Interplay happened, and so did black isle, when they stopped working on fallout so did classic tropes of the franchise. those wagons, the highwayman, and the sweet sweet talking heads

What about deathclaws, nuka cola, the pipboy, power armor, super mutants, the 10mm, Vault Boy, the mister handy?

Wb them