I've used pv longer than dd had this option for, but that's fair! I also don't use find options, for example, since find piped into the tool everyone already knows anyway - grep - is much easier

Sadly, dd will not give you an estimated time or allow you to limit the transfer rate, which are two features I use a lot in pv

That's slowish, bottlenecking disk based IO. (yes you can improve it with dd options, if you are versed in the language...)

One problem I've noticed with status=progress is that systems can sometimes have gigabytes of buffer space waiting to be filled, so the transfer spends most of its time in a "nearly done" state while (for instance) the SD card gets slowly filled at its real speed.

dd conv=swab is a cool and useful option. swab stands for swap bytes, iirc. guess what it is used for, those who don't already know.