There are lots of different types of off roading, so I think it would need to be defined. Rock crawling which I know the least about, seems to need huge torque, not big high end power. Playing the sand dunes which is more my area, needs power and suspension. But even with that it needs to be...
My 16 King Ranch leather is pretty darn good, the 12 Raptor I had was okay, and can't say I am real happy with my 20 Tremor that only has 5,000 miles, looks like 50,000 miles already.
The dealer has to do the prep and get it ready for delivery, and not sure Ford has a system in place to do this at the factory. They certainly could set something up, but might piss off some people.
Had the 10 speed in 18 F150 2.7 lease truck, and it started acting up right before lease was due, so just turned it in. This was also an early truck, and think it was as mentioned some of the first with 10 speed. Beyond that I liked the trans. Now have the newer version in my 20 F250 7.3 and...