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Well, yes. An ISP has one job, to deliver unfettered bandwidth to the end user. Full net neutrality (unlike what they have over in the USA sadly), zero throttling, etc.
That's their one job. Just as water companies don't get to decide what flavour our water should be, nor our electric company deciding what devices we're allowed to plug in.
Internet is a basic and essential utility in 2023, it should be treated as such.
IMHO unfettered also means symmetric transfer speeds so most ISPs fail miserably at doing their one job.