Not sure I agree with your points. If this were a fatter pipe situation, it'd be like $26 gets a Triple Whopper or something (is that a thing there? Don't know)

Not sure I agree with your points. If this were a fatter pipe situation, it'd be like $26 gets a Triple Whopper or something (is that a thing there? Don't know). Instead, it is a matter of getting access to it quicker. With ISPs, you're not paying for the data (it is owned/provided by someone else), you're paying for the capacity to access it. What it is saying is that you'd be prioritized in queue to get to the data (Whopper) based on paying extra with no direct impact to quality of the data (paying extra for fatter pipe does impact quality of streaming, download speed, etc. though, but again, they don't say that the $26 Whopper is any better than the $5 one).