At least you have a choice for power. In CA... Well northern CA, PGE is it. In my area anyway. We don't have a choice.
The sob story about 60k solar... well, I would just say people are lazy and too trusting. I grew up with encyclopedias... You did your actual "research", you didn't read the first three reviews you could find like today. Then bitch about how you were lead down the wrong path.
Information is everything. Hell even if YouTube was your main source of solar information, you would know what to spend on a solar system.
I'm not picking on you Greg, just saying.
On one hand I feel like those folks should have done more research but on the other hand I also feel like they were taken for a ride by unscrupulous sales tactics. I do have some level of empathy for some level of ignorance. But this is why I try to educate everyone around me about solar so they can make an educated decision.
Had you asked me a year ago if I was going to get solar installed I would have showed you the door. I was paying $0.09/kWh for electricity, the economy was stable and things were in a state where solar made zero financial sense in Texas. Yet here we are a year later, inflation is high so spending money now is better than spending it later, electricity rates in Texas jumped to $0.17/kWh on average and I have a full solar+battery system that covers 75% of my usage with 94% self consumption.