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This is similar to my experiences, the really good ones still in the US have heavily specialized on high-end boutique orders. They can be very competent but also very non competitive for any normal work.

Same with with US based PCB shops. They all want to do high dollar ITAR restricted boards for govt contractors.

There is a middle ground. US sub shops that oversee captive Chinese operations with their own crew and keep you in the loop. This worked well for my personal projects and wasn't too horrendous. About 16k for a simple design that I could've had done with our work team for about 8k. But I never had to fly over, play WeChat tag in Mandarin, and I got PowerPoint DFM updates regularly.