From what I understand it doesn’t have all the right bands to work well in the USA. Also I’m not sure IP54 is enough to use the phone in a rainstorm which I do pretty often. Didn’t realize it was that low.

It is/was a huge problem with the Pixel 3

Same, this is by far my number one concern. I use my phone as a GPS on my motorcycle which is my primary vehicle so I ride in the rain a lot too.

Still bummed they wont bring these to the USA

I was deciding on whether to install Graphene OS on my Pixel 3 but between thinking about it and deciding to do so, they dropped support for the 3. I’m afraid to lose features and get new bugs so I haven’t messed with custom ROMs in years, since I had a Moto G4.