OK, good to know. I spent a few minutes looking around and found the weight, just under 4,000 lbs for a two door soft top, so it’s over the rated towing capacity. Not sure where I got that the auto trans Wrangler couldn’t be flat towed, though. Sounds as if a lot of people do so, as you say.
As I mentioned, in Arizona we see big RVs pulling almost anything. Can-Am 3 Wheelers, UTVs, VWs, jeeps, small sports cars.
Towing long mileage is a booger. I used to transfer people for construction jobs all the time and it is really fairly reasonable to trailer ship a vehicle and have it there waiting for you. Had a 150k on an old Jimmy and left it in Chicago for two years because I was there instead of home about 65% of the days out of the year. Just left it there in the airport long term lot at Midway every Friday — had it when I flew back in on Monday.