Step away from the kool aid, sir
So the locked-in closed set top box which obliges customers to rent technology from two decades ago and looks like some Russian clone Spectrum will continue. How one of those helps quality AV production particularly for minority audiences is anyone's guess.
If you had a decent way forward for set top boxes, they could work with any cable provider, work with streaming providers like smart TVs, and provide stuff like the red button on Freeview to take you elsewhere, either on cable or streaming. That would better for minority programming, surely? And they might even be worth the rental money, if you didn't want to buy your own outright.