Tall and skinny tires are good. You can still air them down when needed, just like any other tires. Hooking up requires traction and traction requires tread and ground pressure.
Long ago I drove the M151A1/A2 series "jeeps" that the US military used predominantly. They had biased ply 16" tires on them that had 7 inch wide tread. I drove those trucks into streams, up streams, over logs in the streams, out of streams, up steep river banks, in various types of mud, in packed sand, in deep sand and also occasionally cruised on the highway at 65MPH (which violated the 55MPH speed limit). Those little trucks would go where you pointed them, but... driver's skill was still required to keep from "sticking" them. I still preferred the M151s mobility to the HMMWVs when it came to cross-country mobility. Probably for the very same reasons I like these Suzuki vehicles today.
There will always be places and terrain where four wheeled vehicles won't go and where inexperienced drivers will get them stuck. The head-space between the ears is an indispensable asset and every bit as important as the vehicle's capability.