Someone disagreeing with you isn’t shilling.
I’m not sure why there’s so much concern about hostility being a new thing when Threads comes in. Responses like the ones you’ve replied with demonstrate the existing userbase already has a few toxic apples.
SiriusXM’s abuse of customers aside, it does have it’s uses. It’s decent for areas with no cell service and when you don’t want to deal with terrestrial radio, or if your carrier limits your data and you drive a lot.
Consider 2006-2015. The earlier range of years were kind of terrible for reliable/fast cell service. The later set of years were terrible because cell carriers limited how much data you can consume in a month.
“Meh” bitrate beats out empty silence.