The author puts a lot of effort into emphasizing that it's not just "a handful of people in Antarctica" facing such issues, but quite a noticeable percentage of global population with unstable or otherwise weird connectivity. The internet shouldn't be gatekept from people behind such limitations and reserved for the convenient "target audience" of companies, whoever that might be - especially when solutions to these problems are largely trivial (as presented in the article) and don't require that much "engineering effort" for companies of that scale, since they are already half-implemented, just not exposed to users.

People should not be limited from employing already existing infrastructure to overcome their edge-case troubles just because that infrastructure is not exposed due to it being unnecessary to the "majority of the clients".