Interestingly in my country many full service banks have dropped foriegn currency services. They did that during the panademic but never returned back to offering that again. I suspect they make so much money from Visa/Mastercard commissions that they'd prefer people paid with card rather than cash.

Yeah, a decade or so ago I’m sure I could have found one much easier. The only thing widely accepted is dollars and euros, now.

Right, same here. I learned that the hard way. If I ever need cash for traveling again, this is the way. I much rather use credit card if I can, however. But this place didn’t even had cell phone signal, so accepting anything other than cash was impossible.