But my point still stands. That was a design decision. There is nothing technically stopping them from changing it if they felt they could ease the strain on th

But my point still stands. That was a design decision. There is nothing technically stopping them from changing it if they felt they could ease the strain on their downstream bandwidth by using more localized caching and even P2P schemes. In the end it just further highlights that downstream bandwidth is cheap if they don’t mind sending 20 copies of Stranger Things in 4K down the pipe to a single node covering a neighborhood. So why the data caps?