Non-quick release through axle - a few questions I just bought an RSD Sherrif II fat bike and it has a carbon fork with a thru-axle. It appears to be a non-quick release axle - no lever of any kind, so I need an allen key to remove it. 

I have a few questions:


From some quick reading about removing/installing thru axle wheels, literally all the guides I see are describing quick release variants of the thru axle. Does it mean anything that mine is not quick release? Does that indicate poor quality/ cheapness? Or is it just that fat bike axels are rarer due to their width and not many quick release variants exist? 
If I remove and install it with a normal allen key, how concerned do I need to be about the torque rating (80-120 in lbs)? Can I just put it in to finger tight plus a half turn or something like that? Or should I buy a torque wrench for this? I don't want my wheel popping off (too loose), but I also don't want to crush my carbon fork (too tight). Maybe there's a metal internal sleeve to prevent the latter. I just removed it and checked the tightness before doing so, and I would call it on the tighter end of what you could do with a standard allen key. 
Can I replace this with a quick release axle? If so, what are the measurements that matter in picking a replacement? The specs for this bike say 150mm fork spacing, but the axle itself has three numbers: L=198mm, TL=9mm, TP=M15x1.5.




Here is the axle mounted in the fork:
It's a Maxle Stealth. They are a little cheaper and are also a weight savings thing. They're not super common but there's nothing wrong with them. They've also not been around very long, just less than two years as of now.

As I understand it, on the Rockshox forks that Maxles are more typically found on, the Maxle Stealth versions are fully cross-compatible in all cases with the quick-release Maxle Lites and Maxle Ultimates that share the same dimensions. So for example, the axle you have mainly exists in the world to be retrofitted unto RS Bluto forks with the Maxle Lite that has all the same dimensions. So it's probably physically compatible, but you should probably double check with the manufacturer before doing it that there are no hidden gotchas.

(Edit: One such gotcha could have to do with any pronounced recesses or grooves on the fork that the shoulder of the Maxle Stealth sinks into that a lever might interfere with. Just hypothesizing.)

For the torque, it's really a pretty wide range they give you, so I wouldn't worry about it too much. On the tight but not strenuous or aggressive end of what you could do with a standard allen wrench is a good way to think about it.