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but it has relatively little torque compared to it's weight so it's very shift happy on hills.
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That's one of the ONLY upsides to a big engine with a low redline. I don't ever remember a time where my Jeep down shifted trying to go uphill.
If you find that it down shifts all the time going up a hill, the best way is to GAIN speed just before you go up the hill, and maintain that throttle until you get to the top, then neutral coast down, or EOC down the hill.
There's this on downhill that goes into a long low slope hill, and the speed limit is 40 going down, but I try and hit 50 by the time I get to the bottom, let it shift into O/D, then keep 50 mph up the hill. The speed limit changes to 50 before you get to the top anyway. So I try and get there so I don't have to accelerate later, The downhill basically accelerates for me.
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exception to that rule because it goes to 2100RPM at 65mph
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That's RPM I very rarely get to at any time. I don't get to 2000RPM until 70mph. I don't know how higher in gearing I can go without sacrifice in other area's.