Well-said.

I find direct product plugs a little icky in open source software -- but the approach you outlined there wouldn't bug me, and Yes, would be useful.

Micro-rant: Breadcrumbs that lead to more information go missing all to often in the FOSS world; maybe it's because the often-correct perception is that anyone who cares enough or is likely to benefit from deeper information will also know how to find it anyhow, so why make it any easier? Doesn't take malice, and indifference might be too harsh. Just means there could be more empathy. That's why I like splashscreens, project blogs, and "About" entries under a Help menu, too.

Permits, Drawings, restoration, meeting the requirements for the right-of-way access and dealing with the glacial deposits of rocks etc, trenching can take over a year to return to the original condition, not accounting for the fact that the soil may not settle back the same way if there's any moisture.

I can tell you that boring is the standard by which you optimize many of these items.

Pole attachment costs can be the same or more than underground/boring if you need to upgrade or replace the poles, and it can take up to 180 days to get all the utilities on a pole to relocate, hence why google wanted one-touch make-ready rules to become the norm. They're not wrong, but the issue also is many people are illegally attached to poles, and in some of these rural areas the poles are actually the ORIGINALS from the REA expansion dating prior to the 1940s.

The goals of the county gap project and funding was to provide service to these areas. The problem is the tower may be 2-3 miles away and to hit these speeds, it requires more spectrum than is available, even if you use the RF Elements horn based antennas.

If the farm properties along the way are subdivided they can be connected for much lower cost in the future with this.

Not really, there's a few WISPs in the area already, there are logistical issues when it comes to terrain and tree cover that make it impractical.

Hard to remember things from nearly 30 years ago, but I do apologize for that.

There's also this thing known as a "pole denial" - aka no, you can't attach to that pole, which requires then doing something else, either setting your own pole or doing something alternative as a result. Just like mixing technology or environments (eg: Ubuntu vs Debian, or worse a RPM vs DPKG or Windows vs *BSD) having a mix of construction types can make your life more complex. I'm trying to optimize a lot of variables at once.

I'm glad you consider my plan smart.