Agree.... The concept of Network Neutrality has unfortunately been misunderstood by many conservatives libertarians, and other champions of the free market.
Well there’s multiple facets to it. One is open access another is equal treatment.
People want their IP based networks to behave like its not IP based in terms of quality. Kinda hard to do with net neutrality.
A good example is VOIP. If a telco or cable company has their own brand of VOIP they can’t set it up so it’ll run better unless they make it so where their competitors have the same benefit. I think a cable company was having to deal with issues because they dedicated a portion of their traffic to deal exclusively with their VOIP. To which other VOIP providers demanded access to reserved bandwidth.