I wouldn't consider myself an "average consumer" but if what fuunkychicken posted holds water, Sprint can consider me as good as gone. Six years of folly is long enough.
Same as smorcy11 ^ above. N5, Raleigh, NC market. I haven't tried forcing it from debug menu but zero LTE except when switching back and forth from Global/LTE, whereupon the icon switches momentarily to LTE but goes back to 3G.