The problem with winching out is your remote cord is around 5 metres long, your winch cable is around 30m long. That means unspooling it in a pile, putting the remote down walking the cable out, hopefully there is enough out, if not go back and unspool some more. Hook up. Now go back and feed the slack cable back on to the drum with some tension and nice and even. Then you can start winching/recovery.
Doesn't sound too bad does it? Now go stand in slopy ankle deep mud or in a creek/clay slope and try it.
That doesn't even cover power usage, winching out still uses plenty of amps, winches are thirsty things.
If you intend to stick with your current set up I'd strongly suggest you change to a synthetic winch cable, doing the above with heavy winch cable is not fun.
There is a reason all the winches have a free spool on them, If it wasn't all that important it wouldn't be on them all, leaving it off would make them cheaper to manufacture and sell.
