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#1
I've gone through it and it's pretty clearly targeted at beginners, as you'd expect from the title. Most of the content consists of walkthroughs of the installation and configuration that add a little detail to what's already in the documentation. A lot of the "learn more" references are to FreeBSD man pages, which seems a little bizarre to me because those are not beginner-friendly at all IMO. What it most definitely is not is a comprehensive manual.

The chapters on the CLI and API are really good, though. I've got a lot of experience and those had some valuable information.

I would say that the ebook is probably worth the price (~= 30USD) for a beginner. But an experienced person is not going to get that much out of it. I think that the $45 for the paperback is too steep regardless of your background.
#2
May I ask why SFTP should be in the well-known port list when SSH is already there?

FWIW I found the port forwarding configuration interface a little confusing, too. You couldn't pay me to go back to pfSense but I think the configuration there was a little clearer.