regardless of how good, bad or mediocre the stock lugs are, that doesn’t excuse the above tale of woe from OP. If they were that bad when they started, they would have stopped work, and said ‘hey, your lugs are $hit, we can’t do the tires’.
Yeah, that a BS excuse. I've had the Ford 2 piece lugs on a dozen Fords over the years with no issues. I think a couple lug nuts on my 15 year old truck were starting to swell and get difficult to remove form the socket, but that's it.