Thoughts on towbar hitch receiver recovery points

I'm debating whether to go with a Jimny OEM quick detachable towbar/hook or to go with a square hitch receiver. My thinking is to be able to use hitch receiver recovery points.

Yay or nay? Do the rear factory recovery points suffice? Did you rather 'upgrade' to APIO or similar recovery points? Jimny is the Gen4

I don't expect to go drowning the car in swamps, but can realistically see the need to be pulled/winched out of a snowbank (for example)
*The hitch/towbar would be used for small trailer pulling as well [in case that info is necessary]
 

The factory points are tie down points designed for primarily downward pressure. They're completely inadequate for any recovery that is more than towing a disabled vehicle to a place of safety on a sealed surface. Any type of recovery requiring the vehicle to be dislodged be it mud, snow or rocks incurres a significant risk of ripping the points off the car. This applies front and rear. Using the tow bar for gentle recovery using either a winch or a KERR is possible but using a snatch strap is again going to increase the risk of damage. Using a bridle onto dedicated after market recovery points is best but even then using a snatch strap is potentially asking quite a lot of the recovery points. All that being said I have quite successfully used my towbar as an attachment for someone with a winch to anchor to to self recover and experienced no issues whatsoever. If you are competent and gentle it's possible to do some quite impressive things that a novice or rough git would otherwise cause damage doing.

When you mean towbar, do you mean an attachment into the bar/hitch receiver? Or looped around the bar that goes across the vehicle? Or, dare I say, the swan neck/ball itself?*

*I know, using the actual ball as a recovery point is highly NOT recommended because of the risk of it ripping off and becoming a projectile. Thought I'd put this disclaimer in here in case someone got ideas.

If I'm out at a play site I have a piece of solid that replaces ball mounting flange bolted to the bar that takes a bow shackle. On the farm where it's at my own risk I just loop around the back of the bolt flange. But that's because it's me that is the only one likely to get hurt/have to fix anything I destroy. Time and place and all that.

I have heard all the warnings on not using the tow ball for recovery. Some play sites and or events do have rules now preventing the use of the tow ball. However I have used mine alot and I think that there is a slight difference between a Chevy or a dodge twice our weight, and difference between a static and a dynamic rope or wire or chains. And certainly if you do a "full send" or a nice yank.
I would however not recommend for anyone to do any recovery without taking all and any safety considerations.
I have even used the original "tow point" alot and still it hangs on. But only for small jobs.
I am planning to make proper tow points both front and rear. On the rear it would be based on the tow bar, but on the front due to the Norwegian laws nothing can poke out unless it is approved, so I would be making a soft something from a strap bolted to the frame or something.

Me doing recovery at 4.00 minutes in:

I would not recommend to do it like this!

I bought a removable swan neck tow bar a few years ago (I needed to tow) and last summer added a couple of heavy duty swivel recovery points by drilling the bar. If I was doing it again I would buy a tow bar with 2” receiver, then you can get a tow bar, a recovery shackle or even a plate to take a winch, all in 2” receiver, so much more flexible.

Others have fitted a 2” receiver at the front and can then fit a portable winch to either end, that is the best of all worlds.

Robin