5$/mo and 0.5mbit/s makes me want to own try and play with starlink

feels competitive to a phone data plan in some ways

There's a lot of use cases for that definitely! Alarm monitoring, text messaging, some users are reporting YouTube works at 360p.

One problem though is that in the terms they say that if you're using a lot of data or using that plan for more than 12 months they may require you to switch to a different plan or lose access.