It doesn't affect humanity's view of the night sky. It affects the ability of telescopes, especially wide-field telescopes, to be able to see the sky. These satellites aren't naked eye visible.
I am not sure what sort of light pollution you're experiencing for this not to visible in 'your' skies. I can assure you, I've been camping in a few different locations the past few weeks, the Starlink satellites are consistently visible without magnification.
I was often star gazing and looking for shooting stars and I ended up confirming with a satelite tracker app, that most of the satellites I was spotting were Starlink trajectories.
They are planning to deploy 12k satellites, just let that sink in.
Fair point but you will still have 500+ Starlink satellites, without those mitigations, orbiting for the next 5 years or so until they fall from orbit.
Equally important is what kind of assurance will we have that Amazon, baidu, facebook, or however follows next, will implement these counter measures?
