Net neutrality is gone, so why is the internet mostly the same (to people with money to spare for higher bandwidth tiers which are just as overpriced as the low

Net neutrality is gone, so why is the internet mostly the same (to people with money to spare for higher bandwidth tiers which are just as overpriced as the lower tiers)? Because STATES (Washington, Oregon, and California) passed net neutrality laws to partially compensate for the lack of regulation from the top [1]. But in the first place, net neutrality does nothing about affordability [2], subsidy fraud + corruption [3], deceptive pricing [4], and regulatory capture [5]. Net neutrality would be a relatively minor consequence of a competitive internet service market. In other words, net neutrality is a necessary outcome and nothing close to a sufficient condition. [1] https://www.naruc.org/nrri/nrri-activities/net-neutrality-tracker/ https://www.naruc.org/nrri/nrri-activities/net-neutrality-tr... [2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/04/what-low-income-people-will-lose-deadlocked-fcc https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/04/what-low-income-people... [3] https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/19/senator-ted-cruz-pretends-to-care-about-wasteful-broadband-subsidies/ https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/19/senator-ted-cruz-pretend... [4] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/fcc-says-too-bad-to-isps-complaining-that-listing-every-fee-is-too-hard/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/fcc-says-too-bad... [5] https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/07/after-years-of-stupid-games-the-senate-finally-gives-the-biden-fcc-a-voting-majority-now-what/ https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/07/after-years-of-stupid-ga...