Very well put! I had the exact same reaction as you: even though I don't even use 1TB/month, I found myself looking at alternatives simply b/c of the cognitive jolt of seeing the 20x reduction. Sometimes I wonder if companies don't consider the psychological impact of changes enough. No, logically, this change means a meager price increase for me, but if it caused me (and at least one other) to think about competing offerings, then like you said, indicates a marketing screwup.

That's not to say they have to keep offering that much traffic if they're losing money (of course they don't), but the way you make changes matters.

I've been doing something similar, but I've had good luck using nomachine. My host machine is a Kubuntu VM running on my Proxmox server, and I switch between using a desktop and laptop as guests, also connecting in remotely via wireguard when away from home (which honestly isn't very much these days).

I tried using xrdp before, but, at least at the time I tried it a few years back, personally felt I got better performance with nomachine vs. xrdp, although perhaps this has changed now. I've tried x2go with individual applications before, but never the entire desktop, perhaps I'll have to give that a try sometime.