It's probably also more beneficial from a policy standpoint to get twice as many people signed up at 50Mbps. As you note, the jump from 50Mbps to 100Mbps isn't

It's probably also more beneficial from a policy standpoint to get twice as many people signed up at 50Mbps. As you note, the jump from 50Mbps to 100Mbps isn't that big, but the jump from 3Mbps DSL to 50Mbps Starlink means that you can suddenly use a lot of the internet that never really worked well before. It could definitely be annoying to customers who had signed up and are now getting significantly less speed at the same price, but Starlink has a bit of a captive audience since they're mostly serving people without other options.