I agree with you to a point. We had plastic ones on our older JK models and I was quite shocked that they were not hit on the sides. For my wife’s JL model I think the nemesis Aluminum fenders by far looks the best as in the pictures above with the gray fenders on the Orange jeep. They’re pretty tucked in from the sidewall of the tire so it is not like they are super wide or anything to scrape rocks or walls….