I agree with you man , mines been in to dealer 4 times this winter , they have done everything ford has told them to do , I’ve did the ghetto fix myself 2 times and nothing has continued to work, the last time the dealer was pissed off that everything in door is covered in lube from the “ghetto fix” I performed myself , the fact is even after all this including ford replacing my latches/actuators, I still have the issue of it won’t open at all and then if it does open , it won’t relatch. so those who did the ghetto fix good for you, good that it’s worked on yours but stop insisting that it works or will work on the rest of our trucks because it Dosent. And some of us bought our trucks used so no lemon law choice either....

I did mentioned they put in new latches on the 3 rd visit , they did not use lithium grease on them, I used the word “lube”as a term but it was PB blast and wd40 that left everything greasy inside the door making it a mess, I’m not spraying anything else on the new replacement latches, I can only imagine in a few years the dust that’s going to start build up on everything that had these lubricant/ water displacers on them , causing a bigger issue that ford then will blame on the owner and not wanna cover the cost of fixing ...
I’ll give it to you on suggesting removing the plugs though ,which I have also done , that part makes logical sense to remove them for air to help remove moisture , but this continue sparying crap onto latches is gonna cause more issues later JMHO .... bottom line is there is a problem with the design of these latch/actuators and ford needs to step it up and come up with a new design to fix this problem...

Point taken Kevin , also on the latest fix they put some sort of stiff white thin foam up into weatherstripping , closing the gap some between the glass and weatherstripping at bottom of glass on outside of door, assume that’s supposed to help to prevent water from entering there?
one other thing I believe lots guys aren’t taking into consideration is the time of day there opening thier doors , I’m out the door at 4 am every morning and in winter months that’s about the coldest time day or night how ever you wanna put it ... I’d be curious how many doors latches with the fix are actually working at that time in the am .....

Well we've had minus temps and snow pretty heavy since Sunday night and I just left the truck with snow piling on it until
today. Didn't want to tempt fate and have an issue keeping door shut in the middle of a snowstorm.

So naturally the door latch itself is frozen on drivers side. Would have to force it open and obviously mechanism is frozen
so dealer appointment is finally here Friday and will keep it. Can't be much worse.