When (for example) ESPN charges like $9 per household, there’s no way to get 5 channels for $10 that includes ESPN. Sure you could get the shittiest 5 channels for $10 but what’s the point of that?
Until networks change their pricing model this a la carte option is not going to work out the way people hope.
ESPN is an outlier. Among normal mainstream cable channels, nothing else is more than $2, only a few are more than $1, and the cheap ones are $0.10 or less.
Even paying extra in lieu of bundling, prices like that could work out if you make ESPN a separate $5-10 option.
Until networks change their pricing model this a la carte option is not going to work out the way people hope.