Welcome, from SE Wisconsin!

I bet if you got something upright with wider tires, you'd ride outside more. 42 mm is still pretty narrow for the conditions that you and Wildwood describe. I have a gravel bike with 40 mm tires and another one with 45 mm tires. The 45 is definitely better, and not inflated too firmly.

I have a fat tire eBike that I bought mostly for winter commuting here up north, but I use it sometimes on groomed gravel trails and mountain bike trails as well. I'm sure you see a ton of them down there, and it might be an option to reduce the sweating too. I hear they're cracking down on these dangerous eBikes down there though. It's funny that they worry more about that than people driving cars around who should've stopped driving years ago...