Netflix charges substantially lower fees in poorer countries and the average download speed is higher than I expected. Who still has bandwidth limits?
With multiple devices in the family, 300 GB per month doesn't seem like much of a challenge even without downloading the full blockchain.
And thanks to Net neutrality, it's none of my ISP's business what I download.
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i have really really sucky internet. it would take months (literally) to redownload the full blockchain. and my internet was worse back in 2011 when i started. if i leave bitcoin core up i cant really use the internet at all for anything else, it stalls everything. so its generally offline and i run it to sync every couple weeks or so.

so i still have the original blockchain i started in 2011. full and unpruned. i back it up to a raidz2 (5 drives any 2 can fail)  nas whenever i resync it and also to multiple single drives, some offsite, monthly.

the full blockchain is a real pita for someone like me but as i use it to verify my transactions i need to trust my node fully, ergo i need a full chain from genesis block to now.

it would be nice to have a better way but i cant see how. i trust no node but my node.