The download isn't a lie and it's what they advertise. I was getting 800mbps before I updated my home router from a 2014 model to a 2020 one, now I hit 950-960. I wish the upload was symmetric, but I understand that's not always possible on copper, getting about 50 now. Not bad for a ~50-year-old apartment.
The problem isn't with copper, it's with the cost of building out amplifiers. It's a lot more cost effective to amplify downstream than upstream, especially when most use cases are heavily asymmetric.
(I'd expect that only in the past year or so has upstream been a lot more heavily utilized, what with massively increased work-from-home due to the pandemic. Before then, the primary stressors of the network were things like streaming 4k60 video.
And I'll be very surprised if any ISPs thought torrent uploads to be a use case worth optimizing for.)
I reliably get 900mb down and 900mb up with Verizon in DC.