If you want to run down your battery, without installing a switch for your DRLs, you could just turn on your hazards. That switch is factory installed.
And the Jeep folks probably just did it. They didn't sit around discussing who would and who wouldn't or what the proper wave should be. They just did it. That is not contrived. That just happened naturally. All this talk about whether or not anyone else is doing it is what wakes it contrived...
In the South, they don't sit around trying to figure out how to wave or whether or not anyone is going to do it. It's a natural, friendly thing. This Bonco wave nonsense is not that. As mentioned above, it's contrived. Folks need to just let it happen or not happen. They don't need to talk about...
The Bronco I ordered does check all those boxes, except I opted out of the engine bloa k heater. 23 years in MH, and I have never needed one.
Also, OP did say "we can't all afford the lux package." Most here are probably to ypung to remember, but the Yugo was branded as a car everyone could...