Just had a friend in from Australia and he flew in with 8 rods packed in his suitcase.  All were 4 piece rods.  He is a high roller in tackle and he said they were fine.

Picked up a BPS MicroLite 5'6" L 3-piece pack rod 2

years ago for a trip and holy cow was it impressive!

I still use it. Despite being a L, it fishes far more like

a ML with a solid backbone. Good stuff.

I prefer 1 pc rods, but modern 2 PC rods are so much better than they were years ago they work fine. With good 2 PC rods, hard to tell a difference

Not to threadjack but I've had trouble finding decent two piece rods for bass : Abu Garcia  Veritas are direct only I believe - ditto for St. Croix . I believe BPS has lower end 2 piece rods available - have not seen anything else ?