Fantasy with dragons like Smaug?

Hi all, after a few years of not reading much fantasy books with dragons, I am quite keen to catch up with a few.

Apparently, dragons are cool again these days ahaha.

Obviously, I know of Smaug from The Hobbit, then Glaurung in Children of Hurin.

Love those bastards.

However, I am having trouble finding books/series that have dragons like them – intelligent, menacing, yet surprisingly articulate.

[A Song of Ice and Fire] has dragons obviously, but they are more beasts than characters, not to mention the majority of the story doesn't feature them.

Other series that I have read, or at least aware of:

[Eragon] and the Inheritance Cycle, known by many, not "ground breaking" or anything but still a good read, but dragons don't feel much like a menace IMO.

[The Bound and the Broken], I plan to get on this series very soon, but I have heard dragons don't have much agenda here?

[Fourth Wing] and so on, well it is….something alright 😅

[The Priory of the Orange Tree], I have not read this book (or the series), but isn't the focus more on the politics and conflicts between two kingdoms due to their different ideology in regard to dragons? Not much about the dragons themselves right?

[The Rage of Dragons] by Evan Winter. I have heard good things about this, waiting for book 3, but do dragons play some major roles here?

Middle Earth has been monumental in shaping fantasy books as we know today, but apparently his dragons are far few and between.

Unless I am missing something, but is it this hard to find dragons like Smaug and Glaurung in modern fantasy?

Please do enlighten me folks!

EDIT: I forgot to mention Naomi Novik's [His Majesty's Dragons] and the subsequent books, but I have not read them yet, how are the dragons in there?