[yusyusyus]

it certainly ends in somewhere resembling cost-effective. "reliable" has its meanings in context, and backhoe issues aren't so much of a problem architecturally for starlink.

they have incentive and capability to get that traffic off the shared fate should it occur (even if that extends up to starlink serving one of their IP transit providers for OOB). that's why i question the wisdom of being overly concerned with starlink's particular paths.