Yeah… Terrestrial 5G towers with a fiber backbone for some proportion of them… are… stupendously more cost effective at getting a decent level of internet to a lot of people.

Also doesn’t cause Kessler Syndrome, which is, you know, good.

Now, such a system will still suffer in more abberant atmospheric conditons, but to a far lesser extent.

Literally the only actual ‘use case’ I can think of where StarLink ‘makes sense’ as a better solution is … you are a boat that is actually moving most of the time.

If you’re a house boat… terrestrial 5G probably exists near your mooring.

Either that or you truly, truly live far away from civilization.

… but we already had satellite internet that did those things.