[LG V30 Questions & Answers] ChazzMatt:
Well, first LG has to release Pie. :p I'm only half-joking.

EU H930 30a failed as Release Candidate and EU H93030b became the first official EU H930 Pie release for that variant. Then H930 30b was pulled from LG's servers due to RAM management complaints. A new, improved version supposedly released among Korean carrier variants. Australia H930DS got Pie less than a month ago, but don't think it's new, improved one. No North American variants have received Pie yet.

So, everyone is sort of in limbo.

Back during early Nougat and early Oreo there were a couple of stock-based ROMs. WETA US998 ROM by [MENTION=4553200]Mentalmuso[/MENTION] and BOOMBOX by [MENTION=9023361]Whiskeyomega[/MENTION] (which achieved cult status with audiophiles). Both departed the scene about a year ago. WETA Nougat was a favorite of many, but the Oreo version was never really finished. Link was posted unofficially just to show progress, but dev then said he was moving on to other things. Boombox Oreo was never updated past August 2018 -- whereas in the 12 months since then LG has given us DTS 3D stereo libs in stock Oreo updates and major camera improvements.

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COMMENTARY

Stock ROMs are few and far between for two reasons:

1) unlike the old days, current LG firmware doesn't need much improvement (at least Oreo). It's very stable, fast, fluid. Great battery life.

Don't like the look?

Install Nova launcher with cube rotation, your choice of icon packs, your own wallpaper. ;)

Want some mods?

* Install

Anxious V30 Magisk mod.

(Still for Oreo right now. The dev may develop for Pie when it's ever released for her North American carrier. I'm still on stock, rooted Oreo so that's perfectly fine.)

* install EdXposed (passes Safety Net) and then install Gravity Box. Other EdXposed mods available.

* Turn on call recording

https://xdaforums.com/lg-v30/themes/volume-button-answer-mod-call-ui-oreo-t3951967

or

https://xdaforums.com/lg-v30/themes/enable-native-call-recording-lg-v30-t3869260

Think there's some bloatware you don't need?

Install Titanium Backup, and freeze whatever you don't like. (US998 has almost no bloatware to begin with. I froze Twitter and maybe one other app.)

2) Because of #1, most devs don't like to spend time on stock ROMs. [MENTION=9023361]Whiskeyomega[/MENTION] developed some audio mods (which he posted as standalone mods in Themes/Apps section), and then his

Boombox ROM

was mostly giving users their choice of which audio mods to install (which anyone could themselves on stock from this standalone mods) and some other tweaks/debloating. It was basically his personal version of stock ROM, which anyone can do themselves. See point #1 again and all the stuff you can do yourself, which includes audio mods.

MOST devs who create full blown ROMs want to do BIGGER things than merely tweak/debloat already-debloated stock firmware. So, they go to AOSP/Lineage ROMs. (I'm not including public service ROMs like the stock-based TWRP flashable zips. Those have some build prop tweaks, but are mainly KDZ rebuilt as a ROM -- which we all APPRECIATE GREATLY!)

Once stock Pie is released widely, most ROM devs will move on to Android 10 (Q) ROMs. Because they will want to do something not yet done.