[maxyme]

I have had the opposite experience. I've had symmetric gigabit for a few years now and I monitor my upload and download rates in my bar on Linux. YouTube 4k videos can saturate around 500mbps (if you are scrubbing thru), backblaze can saturate all available bandwidth (but you need extremely high concurrency), game downloads can usually go to around 700mbps (on Steam, Origin and Epic launchers actually go faster). All in all I find it is useful day to day, but not quite as useful as you'd think. There are still way too many web servers that throttle download speed per connection or IP, however I've noticed there are less now than 4 years ago as gigabit consumer internet is becoming more common.

Worth noting this experience is from Phoenix, AZ (which is especially relevent because backblaze servers are in Sacramento and Phoenix).