I still have the factory XLT bench seat in my truck, and I ain't swapping it out, for several reasons:
1) it has bucket-like shape where the driver and the passenger sid, think of it as two bucket seats joined together in the middle, and the middle has a flip-down center armrest - while I drive it feels much like sitting in a bucket seat, but when I pull over I can still lift the armrest and have the full bench for taking a much needed nap on a full-day road trip.
2) I have the seat both lifted up and tilted back some - it's a 3" lift under its front and 2" under the rear edge, and that 1" difference makes it feel like a whole lot more like a car and less like an old truck, and I fit more comfortably in it (my default setting for any car seat is much like a fighter-jet seat)
3) I have added a pair of Grand Marquis headrests to it even tho the top edge of its back is already shaped into some resemblance of headrests (useless to anyone over 5ft tall), and those headrests are actually adjustable front-back.