Maybe they don't think you should have to follow the industry to know what a company's advertising means?
It pissed me off to no end to hear the monopolist advertise their "10G network" ("with speeds starting at 200Mbps")
It was CLEARLY meant to mislead.
I hate to advocate for Comcast of all companies, but I'm actually on their side for once. They definitely should've had their employees explain what it meant to people if they seemed unsure, which I have serious doubts about, and saying they have a "10G network" when availability for 10G is very limited is rather dubious, but calling 10Gbps internet "10G" is fine with me.
If we're gonna go after ISPs for shady shit, why not go after Spectrum for not listing their upload speed anywhere, not even for their business plans? Comcast at least lets you see what you're actually buying before paying, but with Spectrum you just have to try it out or do some google-fu to find a PDF listing the upload speed for some* of their business plans, and then just hope that ths speeds are the same on the nearly-equivalent consumer plans.
Same thing happened with CDROM speeds back in the day. At one point 1X, 2X, 3X and so on were based on an actual throughput number, but then soon the Marketing brain trust realized you could put whatever number you want before the "X" and then the number became pretty meaningless.
Same for "bars" on your cell phone service signal. What is the difference between "one bar" and "two bars" on the display? Who the hell knows, it's a meaningless unit invented by carrier company Marketing.
"I called up T-mobile home internet, and they can give us the 5G for $50"
"Looks like Xfinity has the 10G for $79.95"
The vast majority of people buying internet service are non-technical, misunderstandings about the details are common, and Comcast picked a name that is perfect for confusing with all of their competitors. People don't always know what these measurements really mean, but they know that a bigger one should mean faster internet.
I think some laypeople see the marketing materials companies put out comparing one speed and price tier to another. In other words, a fair number of people who have actively price-shopped internet speed ("should I buy the 'fast' tier that says 100 somethings, or the 'boost' tier that's 200, twice as much, for 50% more money?") would think 10G means 10 times as much as 1G which, it's not a huge leap to think that a fair number of people are aware means 1000 of the Ms.
Granted that's just a handoff so I'm pretty sure you're just on your own when it comes to picking something that can route at 10G. I just went with a decisio opnsense appliance and called it a day.
Where this XKCD comic is about experts overestimating the knowledge of average people, I'm attempting to estimate how much the average person should even care, in this case.