I remember topic somewhere about turning spare wheel winch sideways, so you can crank it via fender well.
I would like to point that moving the spare wheel change the rear axle load by quite a bit.
Depends on the lengths, sometimes moving 80lb spare from the rear of the camper to front bumper can lower rear axle load by 300 lb.
Sure wheel on front bumper is not too cosmetic, but safety is important too.