I think you misunderstood the article, or perhaps didn't read it?

So the way the system works is each house has 4 physical fibers into it, that go into a central office without being aggregated up. Inside the central office any ISP can offer any speed vs price option they want, because they just patch you in at layer 1.

So of course, most people wouldn't necessarily need to get 26Gbit. But if you want to offer it as an ISP you can, and it's up to customers to decide if it's worth the price.

One obvious use case would be folks that work with high resolution video. Uncompressed 8K is about 8TiB per hour of footage. Compressed raw like RED cinema et all are more like 1TiB per hour at the high quality settings.

25Gbit vs 1Gbit for moving 1TiB is 5 minutes vs 2 hours.

A quick google says the 25Gbit service from Init7 is $80 bucks a month.

Sounds like an astoundingly good deal vs what's available in the US to me.