Also not sure if this would also affect anything but if you have Verizon's voicemail app, it might also remove the voicemail option from bottom right of the dialer app so you would need to go into there app to get your voicemails.
No sorry, I actually got better about 10% since the security update installed. Pie in general was a nice change in battery and I hadn't had any complaints since the update to pie either.
Just got the update and it's white now and if you look at the details on play store, says dark mode is coming soon, so I figured they are updating all the new UI's to white to easily convert to dark mode :)
No I am going to wait until next year, my pixel 2 is running great and I don't see enough of a bump to get the Pixel 3, I'll see what the Pixel 4 brings :)