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As mentioned by @orthocresol, just comparing methane and acetylene shows a difference of $\approx 20$ $\mathrm pK_\mathrm a$ units and the amount of resonance required to overcome this difference is very high.

Comparing $\mathrm p K_\mathrm a$ of phenol($10.0$) and methanol($15.5$), we see that the presence of one resonating ring only produces a 5.5 $\mathrm p K_\mathrm a$ difference. Resonance in triphenyl system is effectively only one phenyl group at a time due to the steric effects due to the bulkiness of the phenyl groups.