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Even worse is that RFoG is compatible with the various PON standards (it's just the entirety of the coax cable plant, just mirrored over light), so there's zero reason why FTTP locations can't have standard fiber configurations and it be shared with the copper plant backbone that was the original reason for RFoG.
Comcast (and the rest of their cableco pals at Charter, Cox, et al, with the exception of Altice) are bascially addicted to copper. My parents had a new house built last year in a greenfield community, and, you guessed it, Comcast ran coax to the houses instead of FTTP like CenturyLink did. I do not understand why brand new copper plant is being buried and installed in 2023, it's obscene.