I’ve had no Wi-Fi since Feb. 2023 or so and while it’s been a pain at times, I still haven’t caved into returning to the evil monopoly that is Spectrum, so far, and probably won’t for as long as I can’t land a remote job. ArrowDL, while not perfect, has been pretty good at download management for the most part.
Oh yeah, I had tried PDA, too. I can’t remember why, but I think because it worked identically to TetherFi, I returned to TF probably because it’s open-source. (But with my old phone’s hotspot feature getting miscategorized as normal mobile data usage, I just treat a second phone as a hotspot, haha—and not as primary due to its inferior stats as an older, budget phone, ironically enough.)