shittybilt x20 here as well. Moved the control box into the engine bay. First water crossing and the wireless quit working. Opened it up to find out the wireless switch is not weatherproof, thus the move. Wired it works great.
Factor55 ultra hook.
I use soft shackles majority of the time. Look for high quality shackles (soft will come with an inspection tag sewn on). IMO I’m not a fan of driving around with hard shackles installed. Only useful purpose I can think of is holding the winch hook on older style winches.
I have a custom fairlead, but the one that comes with the winch is good. There were some posts of people having issues with the line rubbing inside the bumper (not sure what branch bumper). No issues with the SSO, just wish I got the winch access holes.