Here's one 'nay' vote for the Winterforce. In fact, I prefer everything else I've had to those. I prefer many all-season tires to those. They wander, they're hard, they're loud, and they're slippery when it's wet out (I nearly spun out - twice - on the same off ramp in the wet). I've driven several different vehicles that had them in several different sizes and my impression has always been the same. If you drive a set of those back-to-back with a set of Blizzaks, Arctic Alpines, etc. the difference is clear. There's a reason they're cheap and it's
not because they're a bargain. /rant
I stuck with the 235/70/15s( unstudded). To me that's plenty skinny enough. You run into wander and handling problems when you go to high sidewalls when people use 225/75/15s or something.
THe only loud tires I've ever experienced are off road mudd tires. I've driven various vehicles over the years, and have yet to figure out how people find tires to be loud? Do you drive around with no air on, no radio, windows rolled up, the quietest exhaust in the world and a piece of tube sticking out under the fenderwell by the tire so you can hear them? Yes you'll hear a distinctive sound from the tires, but they're not loud.
Did you install them on all four corners? They're hardly hard either. soft enough to launch the car on dry pavement and get traction

I never spun out with winterforce tires, unless I was doing donuts. I drove the car in my signature two winters with them (once with two in the back, and once with on all fours), and never had an issue. It was better when they were on all fours as the rears wanted to always push the fronts around corners. I believed the gentlemen who I sold them to is on here, and he had a wagon, and IIRC he loved them. I ran with two sand bags in the back.
I know a friend who drove them for 35,000 miles because that's all he had on his car, and he never had an issue even in the summer.
Sounds like you need some driving lessons

Obviously the Blizzaks would probably serve better for handling, but who takes corners and expects summer performance out of their car in white winters...