Known overheat issues 4.7 RAM V8? EDIT FIXED

Maybe it's a location thing, I don't know, but the impression I get from people around here is that the 4.7 is a total POS.
I don't care for them. My buddy bought one new in 07. I told him to spend the extra money and get the hemi but he didn't listen. He absolutely babied that truck I mean to the point of being ridiculous. He wouldn't drive it on dirt roads he would drive it in the snow nothing. I used to pick on him all the time. What's the point of buying a 4x4 if your not gonna use it as a 4x4. We would always take my truck hunting, fishing, shooting etc. Anyway at 80k miles he was driving home from work and out of nowhere it started getting hot. He took it to the dealer they replaced the radiator and heater core. After that every time he would start it it would puff white smoke but just when it started. That started getting a little worse. I noticed one day when he was driving away it was smoking pretty bad. I told him about it and he let me look and sure enough rhe headgasket was blown. The dealer replaced it and less than 10k miles later it blew again. The truck was done before it reached 100k miles. And was less than 10 years old