Best they can do is sway control with a trailer. Can't do anything with ABS or Traction Control unless there are wheel speed sensors and individual control for each wheel's brake. Sway control just detects side to side acceleration of the truck and chops the throttle to slow it down and will apply the trailer brake to help slow the vehicle. Best solution for sway control is proper loading. Sway normally occurs with too much load behind the trailer axle (light tongue weight) or trying to go too fast with a loaded trailer. The best part about the OE TBC is that it fits in a pocket in the dash and does indeed interface with the truck's control systems. It gives a pretty good display of the TBC on existing firmware without having to look down so low taking your eyes off the road if you need to adjust it or use the manual override. Those are the reasons I used the OE controller.I would favor the factory TBC because there are things the factory can do to integrate traction control and ABS with the trailer which aftermarket can not.
Then again the 2008 SuperDuty coffee table book said the factory TBC was developed in partnership with Tekonsha.
Dealer added TBC to my 2018 before I drove it home.
The factory TBC claims to be somewhat better because it offers both integral and proportional brake signal based on the braking of the truck. At least that's what Ford will tell you. If the brake lights come on, it should slowly increase the braking on the trailer and slow the truck. But some of these features are available in aftermarket units as well. The truck comes with a wiring harness with plug to match the connector for the OE TBC, relay, and fuse in a nice little packet in the glove box to add one if you want to. Like I said, I opted for the factory unit as well thinking it would work better being an integral part of the whole system. The 2014 was the first version of SYNC and has more bugs than flies on a cow cookie, so it still doesn't recognize the trailer being connected. It's no longer supported for SYNC updates, so it is what it is. All Ford is gonna do is tell me to just press the OK button and the alarm will go away. I'm considering trying an aftermarket unit to see if it works a little better. An integral control is the simplest version where the brake signal simply ramps up over time after a brake light comes on. A proportional system controls the output by using an accelerometer to figure out how fast the truck is stopping. Both types use a bias control for minimum braking force which should be adjusted for how much load is on the truck.
More importantly, it seems to me (simply because of the statics and dynamics involved) that having the trailer brakes on the front axle is completely bass-ackward. When the truck slows, the nose dives, the rear rises raising the hitch which takes weight off the front axle giving it less friction with the ground. Seems to me, the smarter thing to do would be to have the brake on the rear axle which would tend to pull the trailer tongue back down, or at least keep the axle with braking on the ground. But maybe I'm not as smart as I think I am and all the things I learned in physics really don't apply. Or maybe my trailer is built wrong with the brakes on the front axle? If my trailer is empty and i have to make a semi-hard stop, it will lock the front wheels of the trailer nearly every time.