Max Transit Cat-18 and Cricketwireless data plan

Cricket still reports my Max is incompatible with their data plan. I found my old MR1100 Nighthawk is still compatible. (2+ years older than my Max) I am wondering if anyone has been able to keep the Cricket data plan working on their Max after setting it up on something else?

We are heading back to Alaska this summer and my 2 Mobley SIMs in my Max do not have service in Canada so I was looking for a backup to my Google Fi SIM while traveling a month or so in Canada.
I am also looking at Starlink but trees at a lot of places will probably make that unusable some of the time. -Bill