I see the topic has drifted towards all season vs winter.
There's a newer generation of tires from several manufacturers, that splits the difference between winter and all season, called "all weather" and stay pliable enough for fairly cold weather (below 0F) while not getting so soft in warmer weather that you would get terrible lifespan to use all year round, in summer too. These newer silica laden compounds don't harden or soften as much based on temperature, but will still have a shorter mileage lifespan than a premium all season tire.
This seems ideal for me because if I had 2 sets, summer and winter, they would age-out far before I wore out the tread because I don't put on THAT many miles per year. I'd end up driving the winter tires till they were old enough that their compound had hardened more than just using all weather tires replaced near twice as often.
Plus I never had any problem using all season so all weather, just goes beyond what I already needed, with it never getting much below 10F here and that only in the middle of the night.
Some examples are General AltiMax 365 AW, Bridgestone Weatherpeak, Toyo Celsius Sport. This is not a comprehensive list, new models are probably already in the market. Look for the 3PMS symbol and lots of siping in the tread pattern.
Granted these examples are not AT tires. I wanted AT and 3PMS on my '98 so I put Cooper AT3 4S on it, with no complaints driving the past couple winters, but this is a gen 5 explorer topic and I don't take my gen 5 '14, off-road enough to need AT tires... because it's not really a truck, lol.