We live in a somewhat rural area in Mexico (big city is 45 mins away) and we have uncapped 200Mb down / 50Mb up fiber for less than $50 per month.
The word "Jesús" is rarely used nowadays to express a strong emotion like astonishment or disgust. It's something my grandparents would have said. My father is in his 60s and sometimes says it but only jokingly.
It's more common in Mexico but it's also disappearing. When someone sneezes the usual response is "salud".
I agree that the speeds are awful on an absolute scale, but they’re competing with entrenched monopolies that own legal right of ways that will never be developed. This lets them prevent competitors from running fiber.
Starlink is attacking the same ridiculous regulatory problem. Why build an entire reusable launch infrastructure and custom satellites when laying fiber is dirt cheap? Heck, Facebook says they have a robot that will piggy-back 2km of fiber over existing power lines in a day!
In California, deploying the robots would mean getting PG&E to cooperate, but I could see it helping out in other states.
I think it highly depends on what's available in your area.
Example rural ISPs. East bay:
https://www.unwiredltd.com/residential-internet.html
(3 up, $50/mo, 6 up, $89/mo, 9mbps up, $129/mo, no caps)
South bay:
https://www.surfnetusa.com/services/
(Lots of plans: 5 up, $40/mo, or 18mbps up, $103/month, no caps)
I’m paying comcast $80 for 6 up, 1TB cap. It’s nominally 75mbps down, but performance is sometimes too slow for netflix 1080p (3-6 mbps down) during prime time. They won’t sell me a cheaper plan.