The design and layout of the Mav's interior is what most people appreciate about it, not so much the quality of materials. It's not the truck for Edward Scissorhands.
Ford is screening dealers to make sure the original ordering customer actually backed out if the truck was sold to someone else. If the dealer cannot prove it via refunded deposit and/or email from the ordering customer, the dealer will be penalized in the future supposedly
Sounds like a D-Bag dealership but you could have payed the Maverick off immediately if you were capable and wiling to pay cash anyway. The dealer would have gotten a charge back but you would not have been penalized, other than maybe one month of interest. At least you had a chance to purchase...
After you placed your Maverick order in November, did you contact your dealer and make any changes to your order ? If you made changes you would only be price protected from the date of edit, not the initial order.