I should’ve been more clear, as I mean that NN imposes expensive compliance. I heard that there are various barriers to running an ISP (like exclusivity agreements - TIL FCC had actually prohibited those in 2022, hope this stands unturned), different from Net Neutrality, and that they are the real issue, while NN is less relevant long-term.

As for the NN itself - I can see the need and even argue in favor of it (as a band-aid), but it’s not a solution and it becomes unnecessary (and possibly even harmful) long-term, if that future has a presence of a really good competition. I’m saying “harmful” only because it may theoretically be weaponized at genuinely benign (or at least honestly meant so) QoS situations (which is crappy, but in such cases the choices are typically between working for most and not working at all - nobody does this stuff for fun).